Priscilla (59 page)

A note on names: My grandmother was known to us as Jill or Gillian, but to avoid confusion with Gillian Sutro I have called her Winnie, the name by which she was christened. Out of consideration for their relatives still living, I have changed the names of two further characters.

PICTURE CREDITS

TM = Tracey Maitland
PC = Peter Cawthra
GS = Gillian Sutro papers, Special Collections Department, Bodleian Library, Oxford
MPP = Musée de la Préfecture de Police archives, Paris
NARA = National Archives and Records Administration, Washington DC
NS = author
SG/JF = Stella Gumuchian collection, courtesy of James Fox archive

Cover [TM]
Endpapers – Boisgrimot Avenue [Jacqueline Hodey]
p. viii Frontispiece
– Pris in Occupied France [TM]

PART ONE
p.10
Pris portrait by Vertés 1939 [TM]
p.14
Pris obituary 1982 [Chichester Observer]
p.16
Pris & Hermès handbag [TM]
p.20
Pris & cup 1940 [TM]
p.23
Padded chest [NS]
p.25
Swimmer & eel 1940 [TM]
p.28
Box of documents [NS]

PART TWO
p.34
Doris Mais 1919 [PC]
p.39
Doris & Mrs Snow [TM]
p.42
Pris & Vivien on Brighton beach [PC]
p.47
Gillian Sutro [TM]
p.51
Boo Wyndham-Lewis [PC]
p.52
Boo with face scratched [TM]
p.53
Pris's scrapbook [TM]
p.55
Gillian & Pris 1932 [GS]
p.57
Pris & Doris [PC]
p.59
SPB & Pris on Brighton beach [PC]
p.63
Pris, Doris & Vivien in Paris 1932 [PC]
p.70
Pris pregnant 1937 [TM]
p.76
Pris passport photo 1937 [TM]
p.76
Robert Doynel passport photo 1937 [TM]
p.93
Boisgrimot [Jean-Paul Pitou]
p.95
Monsieur Carer's buggy [NS]
p.97
Boisgrimot Avenue [Jacqueline Hodey]
p.113
Pris wedding day 1938 [TM]
p.114
Pris & Robert wedding 1938 [TM]
p.121
Marcel Vertès [GS]
p.127
Zoë Temblaire [TM]
p.137
Pris milking cow 1940 [TM]
p.139
Ted 1940 [TM]
p.140
Daniel Vernier 1940 [TM]
p.166
Gillian & John Sutro wedding 1940 [TM]

PART THREE
p.183
SPB book [NS]
p.186
Lavabos [SG/JF]
p.187
Batiment C [SG/JF]
p.189
B.71? [NS]

PART FOUR
p.217
Gillian's red notebook [NS, GS]
p.218
Pris & Daniel 1941 [TM]
p.221
Signing in [NS, Caserne Vauban archive]
p.232
Emile Cornet 1942 [TM]
p.238
Pris's police folder 1942 [NS, MPP]
p.242
Le Meur's report 1942 [NS, MPP]
p.246
Priscilla with Emile's associate [TM]
p.248
Max Stocklin [NS, MPP]
p.255
Pris in fur coat 1941/2 [TM]
p.263
Pris in La Roque Gageac 1942 [TM]
p.278
Gillian [TM]
p.283
Otto Graebener 1943 [TM]
p.298
Alois Miedl [NARA]
p.307
Otto in spats [TM]
p.314
Callipyge [NS, Arnaud Tiberghien]
p.320
8 Avenue de la Marne [Arnaud Tiberghien]
p.326
Pris in barn 1944 [TM]
p.341
Harold Acton [GS]

PART FIVE
p.349
Robert Donat [TM]
p.352
Donat letter [TM]
p.357
Gillian notebook [NS, GS]
p.358
Pris in Morocco 1948 [TM]
p.361
Pris & Gillian in Saint-Maxime 1947 [GS]
p.363
Pris & Raymond wedding 1948 [TM]
p.369
Pris's
Vogue
audition 1945 [TM]
p.374
Rejection letters 1944–1957 [NS, TM]
p.384
Pris, Vivien & Winnie [PC]
p.394
Robert in trilby [Zizi Carer]
p.395
Boisgrimot gutted 1944 [Jacqueline Hodey]
p.397
Author's father in Paris 2011 [NS]
p.407
Pris back in England 1944 [GS]

CREDITS

Cover design by Andrea Cardenas

Cover background art © Nicholas Belton / Getty Images

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This book was originally published in Great Britain in 2013 by Harvill Secker.

FIRST U.S. EDITION PUBLISHED 2014

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