Among the Bohemians (71 page)

and dress conventions,
135

entertaining,
261

Hutchinson, Jack,
256
,
263

Hutchinson, Mary,
212
,
230
,
256
,
261
,
263

Huxley, Aldous:

at Garsington in First War,
56

on Connolly’s household squalor,
211

conversation,
262

lives in Italy,
23

Antic Hay
,
121
,
148–9

Huxley, Juliette,
261
,
263

hygiene
see
cleanliness and hygiene

‘Iceland’
see
Hamar, Haraldur

incest,
51

industrialism,
126

interior decoration
see
furnishing and interiors

Isherwood, Christopher,
233

Italy: English exiles in,
225–7

Jaeger, Dr Gustav:
Essays on Health Culture
,
138

James, Henry,
135

Japps, the,
171

Jarvis (Newbury shopkeeper),
123

jazz,
257

Jazz Age,
119

Jennings, Mrs H.J.:
Our Homes and How to Beautify Them
,
105
,
112–13
,
121–2

jewellery,
154

John, Augustus:

attempts vegetarianism,
173

attends parties,
259

Bohemianism,
29
,
130–1
,
153

at Café Royal,
13
,
158
,
183
,
271

celebrates Armistice,
256

at Chelsea Arts Club,
145

children and family life,
67–70
,
69
,
76

and children’s education,
91–2
,
94

colours,
144

dines out,
183

dispute with Kramer at Campbell’s wedding,
53

dress,
130
,
153–4
,
157

drinking,
274
,
286

Dylan Thomas sponges on,
269
,
272

food and eating,
169–70

friends borrow from,
14

friendship with Nina Hamnett,
20

in Gargoyle Club,
268

grows long hair and beard,
147–8

helps Kathleen Hale,
17

and Henry Lamb’s proposed commune,
44

improvidence,
13
,
15

involvement with gypsies,
130–1
,
242

later years and death,
286

London parties,
255

motoring,
245

opposes Caspar’s wish to join navy,
79

patronises Eiffel Tower restaurant,
269

promiscuity,
38–9
,
41

reacts against parental home interior,
103

relations with Dorelia,
38
,
44

takes hashish,
276

travel urge,
221–2
,
242

wealth,
29

and wife Ida’s death,
65–6

John, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Caspar (Augustus’s son):

education,
94

on father’s parties,
255

naval career,
78–9

upbringing,
67–8

John, David (Augustus’s son):

education,
94

upbringing,
67–8

John, Edwin (Augustus’s son),
67

John, Gwen (Augustus’s sister):

attempts vegetarianism,
173

poverty,
11

travel abroad,
238
,
240

John, Henry (Augustus’s son),
65
,
67
,
69

John, Ida (
née
Nettleship; Augustus’s wife):

children,
67–8

cooking,
178–9
,
191

death from puerperal fever,
65–6
,
67
,
69
,
191

housekeeping,
214
,
215
,
217

marriage relations,
44

material shortages,
11–12

wears hair short,
149

John, Poppet (Augustus’s daughter),
69–70
,
91

John, Pyramus (Augustus’s son),
69

John, Robin (Augustus’s son),
67

John, Romilly (Augustus’s son):

childhood,
69n
,
70
,
74

education,
92
,
94

infatuation with Viva King,
259

at parents’ meals,
170

John, Vivien
see
White, Vivien

Johnston, Edward,
105

Joyce, James:

influence,
146

lives abroad,
233

jumble and junk,
122–3

Kapp, Yvonne:
Mediterranean Blues
,
233

Keats, John,
222

Kennedy, Margaret:
The Constant Nymph
,
70–1
,
95
,
120

Keynes, John Maynard, Baron:

Gertler mimics,
263

sexual proclivities,
46

subsides friends,
17

King Alfred’s School, Hampstead,
87

King, Viva (
née
Booth):

attends parties,
259–60

copies Dorelia’s dress,
157

on dress conventions,
135

on Francis Macnamara,
14–15

helps Nina Hamnett,
19–20

on homosexuals,
47

idealises love,
64

interior decorating,
115

on Kathleen Hale’s marriage,
61

marriage and later life,
284

on parties,
255

patronises Eiffel Tower restaurant,
268–9

Philip Heseltine’s affair with,
62–3

resists Augustus John,
38

travels abroad,
237

on women’s cross–dressing,
153

yearning for studio life,
32–3

zest for life,
265
,
284

King, Willie,
284

Kleinfeld’s
see
Fitzroy Tavern

Koteliansky, S.S.,
215n
,
227
,
270
,
273–4

Kramer, Jacob,
53
,
249
,
273

Kühlenthal, Christine
see
Nash, Christine

Labour Party: formed,
7

Laclos, Choderlos de:
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
,
51

Lamb, Euphemia,
41
,
270

Lamb, Henry:

affair with Helen Maitland,
41

grows hair long,
147

proposes commune,
44

Lambert, Constant:

drinking,
274

lives in squalor,
200

marriage breakdown,
65

Lambert, Flo,
65
,
200

Lancaster, (Sir) Osbert,
Homes Sweet Homes
,
106–7
,
108

Lanchester, Elsa,
46–7
,
267

Lancing College,
83

Lane, Homer,
85

Langham club,
266

laundry,
215–16

lavatories,
197–8
,
204

Lawrence, D.
H.:

celebrates Armistice,
256

exile abroad,
225–6
,
233

farewell party at Café Royal,
270

helps decorate Garsington Manor,
114

helps Rosalind Thornycroft,
225–6

soothes rages with needlework,
218

Lady Chatterley’s Lover
,
49

The Rainbow
,
225

Women In Love
,
226

Lawrence, Frieda,
114

Lawrence, T.E.,
2
,
43

Lees-Milne, James,
133–4

le Gallienne, Richard,
100

Legg, Mrs (Ham Spray cook),
212–14

Lehmann, Mesdemoiselles (dressmakers),
135

Leighton Park School,
94

lesbianism:

and married couples,
62

tolerance and practice of,
48–9

Leslie, Seymour:
The Silent Queen
,
131
,
183–4
,
256

Lett-Haines, Arthur,
262

Leverson, Ada,
261

Lewis, Lesley:

mother employs dressmaker,
135

upbringing,
75

The Private Life of an English Country House 1912–1939
,
103

Lewis, Rosa,
253
,
281

Lewis, Wyndham:

at Golden Calf club,
266

as guest at Campbell wedding,
53

interior decorating,
113

resists dress conventions,
134

supported by Wadsworth,
18

wears hat constantly,
150

The Apes of God
,
18

London: poverty in,
4

London Sketch Club,
266

Lopokova, Lydia (Lady Keynes),
227
,
256
,
259
,
263

Lords Day Observance Society,
228

love:

Bohemian attitude to,
38
,
52
,
60

see also
sex

Loveday, Raoul,
21n

Lowry, Malcolm: alcoholism,
274

Lucas, Mrs E.
V.,
110

Lutyens, Sir Edwin,
105

luxury: eschewed by Bohemians,
124

McCarthy, (Sir) Desmond,
262

McClean, Douglas: marriage to Kathleen Hale,
61
,
96

Machray, Robert:
The Night Side of London
,
185

McKinnon, Sine,
157

Macnamara, Francis:

at Alderney Manor with John family,
70

attends parties,
259

borrowing,
14–15