Augustus John (152 page)

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Authors: Michael Holroyd

The Demon of Progress in the Arts
516–17

Rude Assignment
121
,
516
,
517

Tarr
202

Augustus John to
60
,
199
,
273
,
274
,
282–3
,
324–5
,
351
,
574

Lewis, Rosa
418

Lhote, André
139

Liebermann, Max
485

Lieven, France
432

Lipczinski, Albert
361

Lipczinski, Doonie
112
,
361

Listener
516
,
568
,
569

Little, Brown and Company: Jonathan Cape to
567

Liverpool: AJ’s arrival and first impressions
96–7
; life at St James’s Road (No.
4
)
98
,
105–6
; Cabbage Hall
104
,
111–12
,
280
; University staff
98
,
99–100
,
106
,
114
,
see also
Sampson, John; friendship with Harold and Mary Dowdall (
qq.v.
)
98–9
; Canning Street (No.
66
)
106
; Chatham Street (No.
138
)
113
; hostility to AJ’s work
110
; AJ and Ida’s departure
116
; AJ’s prospective school
183
,
185
; Walker Art Gallery
96
,
110
,
288
,
292
,
293

Liverpool Courier
291–2

Liverpool Daily Post
291

Llewellyn, Sir William
477
; AJ’s resignation letter to
477

Lloyd George, David: Edwin John knows his father
8
; a ‘rotten sitter’
408
; AJ’s portrait
408
,
409
,
428
; invites AJ to attend Paris Peace Conference
439
; ‘bursting with satisfaction’
441
; invites AJ to Deauville
442

Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen
xxxi

Gwen John Papers at the National Museum of Wales
XXX

Llwynythyl (bungalow), Wales
395
,
397
,
400

Locarno Pact, the
486

Loftus, Cissy
37

‘London Group’
347
,
348

‘London Impressionists’
92
,
94

London Magazine
570

Longford, Christine, Countess of
405
,
510

Longford, 6th Earl of
503
,
510

Lorenzetti, Pietro
312

Lusitania,
sinking of
397

Lutyens, Edward: AJ’s portrait
426

Lytton, Neville
89
,
332

McAlmon, Robert
545

MacCarthy, Desmond
568

MacColl, D. S.: becomes Art Critic of the
Spectator
93
; revives antagonism between NEAC and RA
93
; praises AJ’s first one-man show
75
; recommends AJ to Liverpool University Art College
96
, and to paint Jane Harrison’s portrait
285
; mentioned
92
,
94
,
335

Jane Harrison to
285

Augustus John to
528
,
532
,
558
,
564
,
565
,
585

Charles Morgan to
45

MacDonald, James Ramsay: AJ tries to paint
409

McElroy, William (coal merchant)
518

McEvoy, Ambrose: friendship with AJ
37
,
38
; on expeditions with AJ and Evans
40
,
41
; teaches Gwen John Old Master techniques
50
; to Amsterdam with AJ and Evans;
55
,
67
; shares Charlotte St studio with AJ
68
; frequents Café Royal
70
; with AJ and Gwen at Le Puy
87
; crisis in relationship with Gwen
88
; aids and abets at AJ’s wedding
89
; becomes engaged
115
; awkwardness with Gwen
115
; moves to Shrivenham
135
; exhibits at Chenil Gallery
200
; with AJ and Epstein
205
; drunk in Paris
234
; Rothenstein recommends to Fry
350
; sprouts moustache
358–9
; succumbs to fashionable portraiture
407
,
428
; mentioned
49
,
54
,
119
,
147
,
160
,
203
,
239
,
426

McEvoy, Charles
134
,
257
,
271
,
357
,
359
,
551

McEvoy, Mary (
née
Edwards)
115
,
135
,
200

McEwen, Brigid
601

Macfie, Robert Andrew Scott: charming and talented man
283–4
; becomes secretary of Gypsy Lore Society
284
; gratified by demoralizing effects of AJ’s researches
310
; encouragement of AJ
566
,
595
; reviews Sampson’s
Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales
452–3
; ill but indefatigable at scattering of Sampson’s ashes
549
; mentioned
xxvi
,
282
,
291
,
561

Augustus John to
281
,
284
fn
,
308
,
313
,
319
,
320

Machin, Arthur
530

Mackay, John MacDonald
98
,
111
,
225
; AJ portrait
115
,
137

Mackenzie, Compton
383
fn
,
458
,
485

My Life and Times
383
fn

Mackenzie, Irene
17
,
19
,
41
,
42

Mackenzie, Mr and Mrs
17
,
19

McLanahan, Frances: AJ portrait
493

Maclaren-Ross, Julian
569

Macmillan, Harold: W. B. Yeats to
245

MacNair, Frances
99

MacNair, Herbert
99–100

Macnamara, Brigit: joins Alderney gang
412
,
413
; with AJ and Dorelia in Jamaica
513
,
514
; trusted by everyone
528
; intermittent love affair with AJ
529
; AJ’s portrait
528–9
; marriage to Caspar John ‘indefinitely postponed’
529

Macnamara, Caitlin
see
Thomas, Caitlin

Macnamara, Edie (
née
McNeill): appearance
366–7
; with AJ and Dorelia in nomadic life
284
,
286
,
294
; her part in their plans
307
; Lamb carries off to France
361
; at Alderney
366
,
367
,
385
,
413
; marries Francis Macnamara
528
; fades away
590
; mentioned
305
,
357

Macnamara, Francis: ‘poet, philosopher and financial; expert’
392
; introduces AJ to Ireland
392–3
; children
412
,
528
; mistresses
412–13
,
528
; survives war
451
; hated by Caitlin
529
,
531
; Romilly joins on Stour
538
; mentioned
369
,
510
,
590

Macnamara, John
412

Macnamara, Nicolette
see
Devas, Nicolette

Macnamara, Yvonne
413
,
528
,
529

McNaught, Elsie
612

McNeill, Dorelia: birth and early life
127–8
; as AJ’s creation
127
; first meeting with AJ
128
; her presence
129
; and Ida’s acceptance of
ménage-à-trois
129–30
; poses for AJ
130–1
; learns Romany
131
; sets off for Rome with Gwen John
135–7
; in Toulouse
137
,
147
; Gwen’s portraits
147
; in Paris
148
,
149
; affair with Leonard
149–59
; returns to England with AJ
159
; in London and Matching Green
162
,
163
,
164
; helps Ida with new baby
167
; as source of scandal to Rothensteins
168–9
,
170
; Will Rothenstein rhapsodizes over
172–3
; pregnancy and effect on
ménage
174–82
; and birth of son
182–4
; closeness with Ida
185–6
; and Ida’s Paris scheme and the Nettleship opposition
186–91
,
192
; and Paris
ménage
192–3
,
194
,
196–7
; moves into rue Dareau with Ida
198–9
,
210
; pregnant
199
; at Ste-Honorine
216
; and AJ’s affair with Alick Schepeler
219–20
; moves out
221
,
223–5
,
228
; walks back into web
229
; pregnant again
230
; helps with Henry
231
; and Ada Nettleship’s battle over the children
238
; summoned to Equihen
241
; miscarriage
242
,
247
; affair with Henry Lamb
248
,
249
,
250
,
251
,
255
,
256
; disliked by Ada Nettleship
251
; the children removed from her care
251–2
; defended by AJ
253–4
; firm with AJ over his affairs
258
; no objections to Ottoline Morrell
260
,
267–8
,
269
; and battle over the children
270–4
; with six boys in Cherbourg
274
; and Edna Clarke Hall at Diélette
276
,
277
; in Chelsea with AJ
277
; shares ‘Nomadic life’
284
,
286
,
287
,
294
; illness and quarrels with AJ
305–6
; her pregnancy mystifies AJ
306–7
; joins AJ in Provence
307
; arrives in Provence with Helen Maitland
315–16
; at Villa Ste-Anne with AJ
317–18
; meets Ottoline in Aix
320
; dangerously ill after still birth
325
,
326
; vulnerability to the trivial
358
; leaves with Lamb
358
,
359
; ready to take Alderney unseen
359–60
; pregnant once more
361
; Alderney her creation
365–6
,
367–8
; influential style in clothes
368–9
; reaction to AJ’s romances
372–4
; duets with Lamb
372
,
381
; unwelcoming to Wyndham Lewis
381
; does not believe in education
384
; appearance at Dane Court
386
,
387
; organizes Caspar’s entry into navy
388
; Poppet’s birth and Pyramus’s death
389–90
; joins AJ in Marseilles
396
; new strains in relationship
399–400
; makes rare appearance in London
401
; sends money and clothes to Gwen John
404
; Vivien’s birth
412
; and AJ’s Brownsword affair
414
,
415
; and Lamb’s departure to war
416–17
; immerses herself in her garden
417
; Carrington describes
422
; inspects AJ’s new secretary
446
; learns to drive
447
,
449
; nurses Lamb back to health
451
,
502
; their subsequent relationship
502–3
; hates Eve Fleming
458
; and Chiquita’s pregnancy
459
; saves AJ’s pictures
465
; at Fryern Court
498
,
499
,
500
; described by her children
388
,
535
; tries to leave
503
; interests narrow
503–4
; and AJ’s drinking
507
,
508
,
509
; goes with AJ to Amsterdam
511
, and Jamaica
513
,
514
; rents Mas de Galeron
521
; dislikes Mavis Cole
525
; wants to bring up Tristan
526
,
527
; on AJ’s resignation from RA
476–7
; their departure from France
522
; and Gwen John’s cottage
551
,
555–6
; refuses to marry AJ
564
; ‘illiterate, dumb and ill-natured’
582
,
583
; breaks her arm
588
; in Spain with AJ
588–9
; with AJ at his death
599
; helps author with Strachey research
xiii
; author interviews
xiv
,
xvi-xvii
,
xxiii
; gets the family to collaborate
xx
; death
xxiii
,
601–2
; mentioned
133
,
255
,
259
,
314
,
395
,
440
,
443
,
450
,
480
,
487
,
491
,
529
,
550
,
561
,
580
,
601

Augustus John to
128–9
,
130–1
,
134
,
135
,
144
,
146–8
,
150
,
183
,
158
,
199
,
200
,
201
,
203
,
241
,
257
,
258
,
271
,
274
,
275
,
288
,
300
,
304–14
;
passim,
354
,
356
,
358–9
,
372
,
378
,
380
,
385
,
391–9
passim,
401
,
405–6
,
411
,
414
,
416
,
432
,
434
,
436
,
437
,
439
,
441
,
466
,
481
,
483–94
;
passim,
512–13
,
528
,
531
fn
,
536
,
550

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