The Love-Charm of Bombs (74 page)

‘debating suicide during’:
see Virginia Woolf, diary, 7 June 1940,
The Diary of Virginia Woolf
, ed. Anne Olivier Bell and Andrew McNeillie (London: Hogarth Press, 1977–1984).

‘personal charm’:
RM, obituary for Virginia Woolf,
Spectator
, 11 April 1941.

‘a wretched way’:
RM to Sylvia Lynd, 23 April 1941, in Sarah LeFanu,
Rose Macaulay
(London: Virago, 2003),
p. 231.

‘continual, disturbing, restless’:
RM,
What Not: A Prophetic Comedy
(London: Constable and Company, 1918),
p. 157.

‘muddy red of a stained’:
Gerald O’Donovan,
Father Ralph
(London: Macmillan, 1913),
p. 316.

‘gay, young and enthusiastic’:
Beryl O’Donovan in LeFanu,
Rose Macaulay
,
p. 132.

‘considerably older’:
Beryl O’Donovan in ibid.,
p. 131.

‘his manners were bad’:
RM,
What Not
,
pp. 24, 7, 82.

‘so departmental’: ibid.,
pp. 113, 114–15.

‘decidedly entertaining’:
ibid.,
pp. 7, 121, 127.

‘negligent, foppish’:
RM,
Told by an Idiot
(London: Collins, 1965),
part 1, ch. 4, part 2, ch. 2.

‘beastly half-way house’:
RM,
What Not
, pp. 149–53.

‘The fact remained’: ibid.,
pp. 157, 180.

‘I’m not going to take you’:
RM,
Told by an Idiot
,
part 2, ch. 3, part 2, ch. 4.

‘caught into a deep’: ibid.,
part 2, ch. 4, part 2, ch. 5.

‘his real work’:
RM to Rosamond Lehmann, 20 August 1942 (RL KC).

‘weak to think of him’:
Gerald O’Donovan,
The Holy Tree
(London: William Heinemann, 1922),
pp. 145, 152, 161, 163–4.

‘Beloved, gaze in thine’:
W. B. Yeats, ‘The Holy Tree’,
Collected Poems
(London: Vintage, 2009).

‘the like of which’:
O’Donovan,
The Holy Tree
,
pp. 171, 203, 225–6.

‘two stunted souls’:
ibid., pp. 287, 299, 314.

‘a faint weariness’:
RM,
Told by an Idiot
,
part 2, ch. 13.

‘the best kept secret’:
Victor Gollancz,
Reminiscences of Affection
(London: Victor Gollancz, 1968),
p. 83.

‘at immediate impact’:
Anthony Powell, ‘The Pleasures of Knowing Rose Macaulay’, in Constance Babington Smith,
Rose Macaulay: A Biography
(London: Collins, 1972).

‘the clearest case of sexual’:
Storm Jameson, in Jennifer Birkett,
Storm Jameson: A Life
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009),
p. 75.

‘felt anyone so utterly’:
Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 25 May 1928,
The Letters of Virginia Woolf
, ed. Nigel Nicolson and Joanna Trautmann (London: Hogarth Press, 1975–1980).

‘There
are
other things’:
RM,
Dangerous Ages
(London: Collins, 1921),
chs 3viii, 13iii.

‘is the important part’:
RM to Jean Macaulay, 14 April 1927 (RM TC).

‘It is stupid’:
RM, in Alan Pryce-Jones, ‘The Pleasures of Knowing Rose Macaulay’, 1959 (in Constance Babington Smith,
Rose Macaulay
).

‘While you hold me’:
RM,
Told by an Idiot
,
part 2, ch. 3.

‘her limbs and every’:
O’Donovan,
The Holy Tree
,
p. 161.

‘the longer I live’:
RM,
And No Man’s Wit
(London: Collins, 1940), p. 272.

‘amphibious days’:
RM,
What Not
,
p. 183.

‘lapped in the clear’:
RM, ‘Bathing’,
Personal Pleasures
(London: Victor Gollancz, 1935).

‘To swim out agin’:
O’Donovan,
The Holy Tree
,
p. 24.

‘if one is so fortunate’:
RM, ‘In Deep and Shallow Waters’,
The Listener
, 30 January 1936.

‘507 aircraft’:
see Neil Wallington,
Firemen at War
(Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1981),
p. 172.

‘at 4 a.m. the fire brigade’:
see Westminster, SMBC file 584.

‘it got first an HE’:
RM to Storm Jameson, in Jameson,
Journey from the North
(London: Vintage, 1984),
vol. 2, p. 112.

‘House no more’:
RM to Daniel George, 12 May 1941 (RM TC).

‘Luxborough Towers have fallen’:
RM to Victor Gollancz, 18 May 1941, in Gollancz,
Reminiscences of Affection
, p. 78.

‘all my lovely seventeenth’:
RM to Storm Jameson, in Jameson,
Journey to the North
,
vol. 2, p. 112.

‘a superb and monstrous’:
RM,
Milton
(London: Duckworth, 1934),
p. 10.

‘I wish one of his wives’:
RM to Helen Waddell, 1 November 1932 (RM TC).

‘my darling Dictionary’:
RM to Victor and Ruth Gollancz, 28 May 1941 (RM TC).

‘the only objects to survive’:
see Jameson,
Journey from the North
, vol. 2, p. 112.

‘very very charming’:
HS, diary, 5 September 1941 (HS NLV).

‘I am an Englishman’:
Peter de Mendelssohn, ‘Writers without Language’, PEN,
Writers in Freedom: A Symposium based on the 17th International Congress of the PEN
, ed. Hermon Ould (London: Hutchinson & Co, 1942).

‘You’re very tired’:
Storm Jameson,
Journey to the North
,
vol. 2, p. 113.

‘It happened to me’:
RM, ‘Losing One’s Books’,
Spectator
, 7 November 1941.

9:
‘You are the ultimate of something’

‘We are puzzled’:
Harold Nicolson, diary, 17 June 1941,
Diaries and Letters 1939–45
, ed. Nigel Nicolson (London: Collins, 1967).

‘a monster of wickedness’:
Winston Churchill, speech, 22 June 1941,
War Speeches, 1939–45
, compiled by Charles Eade, 3 vols (London: Cassell & Co, 1951–2).

‘War moved from the’:
EB,
HoD
, ch. 5.

‘The pay is very good’:
GG to Marion Greene, 20 August 1941, Richard Greene,
Graham Greene, A Life in Letters
(London: Little, Brown, 2007).

‘he had been taught’:
GG to John Betjeman, 18 October 1941 (
A Life in Letters
).

‘Everyone has a sort of false’:
HS, diary, July 1941 (HS NLV).

‘Beloved, I can’t believe’:
EB to CR, 17 January 1945 (
LC
W
).

‘She says it began’:
CR, diary, 2 September 1941 (
LC
W
).

‘well-dressed middle-aged’:
CR, diary, 10 February 1941 (
LC
W
).

‘Wartime London’:
CR, introduction to
The Siren Years: Undiplomatic Diaries 1937–1945
(London: Macmillan, 1974).

‘symptoms of sexual happiness’:
CR, diary, 12 January 1941 (
The Siren Years
).

‘present hectic life’:
CR, diary, 29 March 1941 (
The Siren Years
).

‘looking back on’: CR, diary, 21 May 1941 (
The Siren Years
).

‘some woman’s name’:
CR, diary, 30 May 1941 (
The Siren Years
).

‘We go from one’:
CR, diary, 4 July 1941 (
The Siren Years
).

‘It was not that she’:
EB, draft typescript of
The Heat of the Day
(EB HRC).

‘As we walked together’:
CR, diary,29 September 1941 (
The Siren Years
).

‘great globular roses’:
EB,
HoD
,
ch. 1.

‘A particular gentle’:
EB to CR, 13 January 1950 (
LC
W
).

‘Charles recalled’:
CR, diary, 24 February 1961 (
LC
W
).

‘More, it was a sort of’:
EB,
HoD
,
ch. 5.

‘My fancy turns’:
CR, diary, 10 May 1942 (
LC
W
).

‘I and my friends all’:
EB, ‘Pictures and Conversations’,
The Mulberry Tree: Writings of Elizabeth Bowen
, ed. Hermione Lee (London: Vintage, 1999).

‘Do you realise how’:
EB to Alan Cameron, 1923 (
The Mulberry Tree
).

‘Why Elizabeth’:
Humphry House to EB, 23 July 1934 (private collection).

‘temperament and tastes’:
Peter Quennell,
Customs and Characters, Contemporary Portraits
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982), p. 88.

‘He was quite stout’:
May Sarton,
A World of Light
(New York: Norton, 1988),
p. 192.

‘I believe his love’:
EB,
B’s C
,
p. 174.

‘War makes us more’:
EB, ‘The Christmas Toast is “Home”’,
People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen
, ed. Allan Hepburn (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008).

‘Alan was like a character’:
see CR, diary, 19 September 1942 (
LC
W
).

‘to atmosphere’:
Sarton,
A World of Light
,
p. 197.

‘overwhelming love’:
EB to Humphry House, 18 May 1935 (private collection).

‘a middle-class complaint’:
CR, diary, 22 October 1941 (
The Siren Years
).

‘engage in extramarital’:
Sarton,
A World of Light
,
p. 213.

‘Vacuum as to future’:
EB,
HoD
, ch. 5.

‘campers in rooms’: ibid.

‘The extraordinary time’:
EB, draft typescript of
The Heat of the Day
(EB HRC).

‘to protract itself’:
EB, publisher’s blurb for
The Heat of the Day
(EB HRC).

‘a’ within’:
CR, diary, 1 June 1941 (
The Siren Years
).

‘Would I ever have’:
CR, diary, 2 September 1941 (
LCW
).

‘his youthfulness’:
EB,
HoD
,
ch. 5.

‘the tree-lined’:
see CR, diary, 27 October 1941 (
The Siren Years
).

‘The capacity for’:
CR, diary, 10 November 1941 (
The Siren Years
).

‘Old men in clubs’:
CR, diary, 1 October 1941 (
The Siren Years
).

‘The picture is that’:
CR, diary, 7 December 1941 (
The Siren Years
).

‘crowded and dead’:
Evelyn Waugh, diary, December 1941,
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh
, ed. Michael Davie (London: Phoenix, 2009).