Read The Love-Charm of Bombs Online
Authors: Lara Feigel
‘it felt odd’:
GG, diary, 3 January 1942, in Norman Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
(London: Pimlico, 2004–5),
vol. 2, p. 98.
‘Operation Menace’:
see Martin Gilbert,
Second World War
(London: Fontana, 1990), p. 127.
‘Dakar has set us’:
RM to Jean Macaulay, 29 September 1940 (RM TC).
‘Henry Yorke no doubt’:
Evelyn Waugh, diary, 19 October 1940 (
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh
).
‘Nothing that I ever wrote’:
GG to Elisabeth Greene, 2 June 1942, in Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
,
vol. 2, p. 114.
‘Ambitiously, Greene wondered’:
see ibid.,
p. 120.
‘I suppose’:
GG,
A Sort of Life: An Autobiography
(Bath: Chivers, 1981),
ch. 7iii.
‘he and his brother’:
see GG,
A World of my Own: A Dream Diary
(London: Penguin, 1993), p. 24.
‘Lying awake at night’:
see GG, preface to
The Ministry of Fear
, collected edition
(London: William Heinemann, 1973).
‘broken glass’:
see GG,
The Ministry of Fear
,
ch. 1i.
‘After being the centre’:
CR, diary, 4 December 1941 (
The Siren Years
).
‘I should hate to lose her friendship’:
CR, diary, 21 December 1941 (
LCW
).
‘E is sad’:
CR, diary, 11 January 1942 (
LCW
).
‘A little indifference’:
CR, diary, 21 April 1942 (
LCW
).
‘I told her’:
CR, diary, 9 April 1942 (
LCW
).
‘desolating’:
CR, diary, 21 April 1942 (
LCW
).
‘broken her fairytale’:
EB, ‘Summer Night’,
Collected Stories
(London: Vintage, 1999).
‘She holds me by’:
CR, diary, 29 September 1941 (
LCW
).
‘One of the luxuries’:
CR, diary, 24 May 1942 (
LCW
).
‘I am in love with E’:
CR, diary, 25 May 1942 (
LCW
).
‘Of what is her magic’:
CR, diary, 2 June 1942 (
The Siren Years
).
‘more and more of her’: ibid.
‘It’s not too easy’:
RM to Jean Smith, 25 February 1942, in
Dearest Jean: Rose Macaulay’s Letters to a Cousin
, ed. Martin Ferguson Smith (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011).
‘cut in two’:
RM, ‘Miss Anstruther’s Letters’, in Constance Babington Smith,
Rose Macaulay: A Biography
(London: Collins, 1972).
‘Is there anything to be said’:
RM, ‘A Spectator’s Notebook’, June 1942 (unpublished, in RM TC).
‘he didn’t linger’:
RM to Rosamond Lehmann, 20 August 1942 (RL KC).
‘in parts brilliant’:
RM obituary for Gerald O’Donovan,
The Times,
10
August 1942.
‘I always talked’:
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 16 April 1951, in
Letters to a Friend 1950–1952
, ed. Constance Babington Smith (London: Collins, 1961).
‘Her want of Maurice’:
RM,
WMW
,
ch. 3.
‘And now the joy’:
RM,
ToT
,
ch. 25.
‘how long we should’:
ibid.,
ch. 16.
‘really she bored him’: ibid., ch. 25.
‘Marjorie Grant Cook’:
see Babington Smith,
Rose Macaulay
,
p. 105.
‘some men and women’:
RM, ‘People who Should Not Marry’, in ibid., p. 106.
‘to be with the beloved’:
RM, ‘Problems of Married Life’,
A Casual Commentary
(London: Methuen, 1925).
‘How does one know’: ‘Inquiry into the Sanctity of the Home’, in ibid.
‘a fetter on what shouldn’t’:
RM,
Dangerous Ages
(London: Collins, 1921),
ch. 10ii.
‘a handicap’: RM,
Potterism: A Tragi-farcical Tract
(London: Collins, 1920),
part 6, ch. 2i.
‘a good one’:
RM to Sylvia Lynd, 30 July 1942, in Sarah LeFanu,
Rose Macaulay
(London: Virago, 2003),
p. 237.
‘Oh why was there’:
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 16 April 1951 (
Letters to a Friend
).
10:
‘Can pain and danger exist?’
‘a painful series’:
Winston Churchill, speech, 23 April 1942,
War Speeches, 1939–45
, compiled by Charles Eade (London: Cassell & Co, 1951–2).
‘Even Hitler makes’:
Churchill, speech, 10 May 1942 (
War Speeches
).
‘We shall go out to bomb’:
in Juliet Gardiner,
Wartime: Britain 1939–1945
(London: Headline, 2005), p. 613.
‘a breathless glory’:
EB,
HoD
, ch. 9.
‘the light’:
EB,
B’s C
,
p. 248.
‘Only the wireless’:
afterword to
B’s C
,
p. 457.
‘Harold Nicolson reflected’:
see Harold Nicolson, diary, 22 July 1942,
Diaries and Letters 1939–45
, ed. Nigel Nicolson (London: Collins, 1967).
‘a greater degree of cut-offness’:
EB, report, 31 July 1942,
Notes on Eire, Espionage Reports to Winston Churchill, 1940–2
, Aubane Historical Society, ed. Jack Lane and Brendan Clifford, 3rd edn.
‘Irish newspapers and radio stations’:
see Clair Wills,
That Neutral Island
(London: Faber, 2008), p. 274.
‘Eire feels as strongly’:
EB, ‘Eire’,
New Statesman and Nation
, 12 April 1941.
‘an ocean of indifference’:
Hubert Butler, ‘The Barriers’,
The Bell
, July 1941.
‘not in the true’:
James Dillon, in Wills,
That Neutral Island
, p. 130.
‘no responsibility’: Éamon de Valera, in ibid.,
p. 131.
‘if, in some awful’: James
Dillon, in Maurice Manning,
James Dillon: A Biography
(Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1999),
p. 173.
‘even I distrust’:
EB, report, 9 November 1940 (
Notes on Eire
).
‘Mr Dillon’s uncompromising’:
EB, report, 9 February 1942 (
Notes on Eire
).
‘an almost neurotic’:
EB, report, 20 February 1942 (
Notes on Eire
).
‘dishonesty, of turning’:
EB, report, 31 July 1942 (
Notes on Eire
).
‘stop thinking of’:
Cyril Connolly, editorial,
Horizon
, January 1942.
‘fearless lights’:
EB,
HoD
, ch. 9.
‘queer feeling of’:
Sean O’Faolain, in Wills,
That Neutral Island
, p. 277.
‘general impression of’:
EB, report, 20 February 1942 (
Notes on Eire
).
‘live and act in the’:
O’Faolain, editorial,
The Bell,
July 1942.
‘small but very vocal’:
O’Faolain, editorial,
The Bell
, November 1942.
‘minor errors’:
D. A. Binchy, review of
Bowen’s Court
,
The Bell
, August 1942.
‘in whose shadow’:
EB, ‘Sunday Afternoon’,
Collected Stories
(London: Vintage, 1999).
‘could do untold good’:
EB, report, 12 July 1942 (
Notes on Eire
).
‘aristocrat’s capacity’:
The Bellman, interview with Elizabeth Bowen,
The Bell
, September 1942.
‘the timidity of an intruder’:
EB,
HoD
,
ch. 10.
‘somehow less remarkable’:
CR, diary, 15 August 1942 (
LCW
).
‘Spent the day with’:
CR, diary, 14 September 1942 (
The Siren Years
).
‘It is like their deciding’:
Stephen Spender to T. S. Eliot, 30 August 1943 (Spender archive, Bod).
‘It would be true to say’:
Stephen Spender, journal, 28 December 1942,
New Selected Journals
, ed. Lara Feigel and John Sutherland (London: Faber, 2012).
‘a childish-looking uniformity’:
Spender,
World Within World
(New York: Modern Library Classics, 2001),
p. 293.
‘I sit in my swivel’:
HY, 21 July 1942, in Jeremy Treglown,
Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green
(London: Faber, 2000),
p. 154.
‘Yorke had processed orders’:
see HY to Rosamond Lehmann, 21 June 1943 (RL KC).
‘if life in a fire station’:
HG, ‘The Lull’,
Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green
(London: Harvill, 1993).
‘I have been thinking over’:
HY to John Lehmann, 18 November 1942 (John Lehmann archive, HRC).
‘he could not leave’:
HG,
Caught
(London: Harvill Press, 2001), p. 30.
‘he could not, this time’:
HG, draft typescript of
Caught
(HY archive).
‘There is a great advantage’:
Churchill, speech, 11 November 1942 (
War Speeches
).
‘noble Desert Army’: ibid.
‘Montgomery’s through’: EB,
HoD
,
ch. 9.
‘the best work you have’:
HY to Evelyn Waugh, 24 December 1942 (Evelyn Waugh archive, HRC).
‘1942, still with no’:
EB,
HoD
,
ch. 17.
‘First made me’:
HS, diary, 18 January 1943 (HS NLV).
‘beastly Luftwaffe’:
HS, diary, 21 January 1943 (HS NLV).
‘tiny, perfect, absolutely’:
HS, diary, 12 February 1943 (HS NLV).
‘breaking down only’:
HS, diary, 10 February 1943 (HS NLV).
‘in a way’:
HS, diary, 13 February 1943 (HS NLV).
‘glad to be alive’:
HS, diary, 15 February 1943 (HS NLV).
‘nervous breakdown’:
HS, diary, 17 February 1943 (HS NLV).
‘Very charming’:
HS, diary, 22 February 1943 (HS NLV).
‘Scenes from Dante’s’: HS,
DaB
, p. 133.
‘the goodwill’:
ibid.,
p. 134
‘Peter was informed’:
see HS, diary, 3 December 1942 (HS NLV).
‘The vision of home’:
HS, ‘Psychologie des Exils’,
Kleine Schritte: Berichte und Geschichten
(München: Heinrich Ellermann, 1976).
‘The memories of home’:
see HS,
DaB
,
p.
132.
‘I was so pleased’:
HS, diary, 27 March 1943 (HS NLV).
‘the community of readers’:
see HS,
DaB
,
p. 128.
‘Then why did you hit me?’:
HS,
Die Früchte des Wohlstands
(München: Nymphenburger, 1981),
p. 243.