The Love-Charm of Bombs (82 page)

‘if she greatly':
RM,
WMW
, chs 2, 3.

‘about dust-heaped': ibid.,
chs 5, 6.

‘New ruins':
RM,
Pleasure of Ruins
(London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1953),
p. 454.

‘I can't think':
RM,
WMW
,
ch. 2.

‘Day of wrath': ibid.,
chs 7, 23.

‘We are in hell': ibid.,
ch. 23.

‘Very soon trees':
RM,
Pleasure of Ruins
,
p. 454.

‘broken habitations':
RM,
WMW
,
chs 5, 18.

‘seized, bound': ibid.,
ch. 31.

‘Make your way':
RM, ‘In the Ruins',
Spectator
, 18 November 1949.

‘sharp sense of':
RM, ‘The First Impact of
The Waste Land
', Braybrooke (ed.),
T. S. Eliot: A Symposium for his Seventieth Birthday
(London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958).

‘Slim, elegant and twenty-three':
RM,
WMW
,
chs 2, 34.

‘glitter of good': ibid.,
ch. 2.

‘I am within':
RM to David Ley, 15 April 1949 (RM TC).

‘dispossession of the':
RM,
Pleasure of Ruins
,
pp. 362–3.

‘a country of ruins':
EB,
B's C
,
pp. 15, 17.

‘inextricably mixed':
RM,
Pleasure of Ruins
,
p. 1.

‘the darkly ruinous': ibid.,
pp. 9, 20, 23.

‘stupendous past': ibid.,
pp. 40, 84, 165.

‘enjungled, engulfed': ibid., pp. 454–5.

‘how a young lady':
Hamilton Johnson, in Constance Babington Smith, introduction to Rose Macaulay,
Letters to a Friend
.

‘If you were in England':
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 30 August 1950 (
Letters to a Friend)
.

‘The people I love most':
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 28 September 1950 (
Letters to a Friend
).

‘Partly my difficulties':
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 28 October 1950 (
Letters to a Friend
).

‘didn't feel jolly':
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 10 November 1952,
Last Letters to a Friend 1952–1958
, ed. Constance Babington Smith (London: Collins, 1962).

‘took up with the':
RM,
ToT
,
chs 7, 20, 14.

‘last little Byzantine':
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 8 July 1954 (
Last Letters to a Friend
).

‘an old dream':
RM
, ToT
,
chs 8, 25.

‘is exciting': ibid.,
ch. 25.

‘a book I have':
RM to Rosamond Lehmann, 11 September 1956 (RL KC).

 

Coda

‘I have an':
RM to Jean Macaulay, 22 March 1955 (RM TC).

‘she would not':
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 1 October 1956,
Last Letters to a Friend 1952–1958
, ed. Constance Babington Smith (London: Collins, 1962).

‘I can't not be':
RM to Rosamond Lehmann, 11 September 1956 (RL KC).

‘wit and brains':
RM,
ToT
,
ch. 24.

‘the long years':
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 9 January 1951,
Letters to a Friend 1950–1952
, ed. Constance Babington Smith (London: Collins, 1961).

‘scattered, adrift':
RM,
ToT
,
ch. 25.

‘A kind of shining':
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 25 May 1951 (
Letters to a Friend
).

‘her ice-blue eyes':
Rosamond Lehmann, ‘The Pleasures of Knowing Rose Macaulay', in Constance Babington Smith,
Rose Macaulay: A Biography
(London: Collins, 1972).

‘unable to put':
RM to Jean Macaulay, 17 March 1958 (RM TC).

‘What on earth':
RM, in Anthony Powell, ‘The Pleasures of Knowing Rose Macaulay', in Babington Smith,
Rose Macaulay
.

‘But we have all':
Rosamond Lehmann, ‘The Pleasures of Knowing Rose Macaulay', in ibid.

‘I had immense hope':
EB interview by three writers, 1959 (EB HRC).

‘she told William Plomer':
EB to William Plomer, 6 May 1958,
The Mulberry Tree: Writings of Elizabeth Bowen
, ed. Hermione Lee (London: Vintage, 1999).

‘was the last in which':
CR, diary, 22 January 1957 (
LCW
).

‘We
are
a family':
EB, ‘Bowen's Court', 1958,
People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen
, ed. Allan Hepburn (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008).

‘E and I came home':
CR, diary, 8 May 1956 (
LCW
).

‘dependence on home':
EB, ‘The Idea of the Home', undated (EB HRC).

‘it really would break':
EB to CR, 18 June 1958 (
LCW
).

‘The trouble is':
CR, diary, 23 June 1958 (
LCW
).

‘I suppose it's':
EB to CR, 21 July 1958 (
LCW
).

‘a clean end':
EB, afterword to
B's C
,
p. 459.

‘My darling, my darling':
EB,
A Time in Rome
(London: Vintage, 2010),
ch. 5.

‘Here we have':
EB,
B's C
,
p. 377.

‘Guests invited for dinner':
this and much other information in this paragraph comes from an interview conducted by the author with Anthony Felix de Mendelssohn.

‘For the first time':
PdeM to HS, 4 May 1957 (HS PdeM).

‘You have systematically':
PdeM to HS, 31 August 1963 (HS PdeM) (originally in German).

‘our life is too short':
HS to PdeM, 25 October 1963 (HS PdeM) (originally in German).

‘her ultimate return to Vienna':
see afterword to
Return to Vienna,
trans. Christine Shuttleworth (Riverside, California: Ariadne Press, 2011).

‘Very long black':
Evelyn Waugh to Nancy Mitford, 16 May 1951,
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
, ed. Charlotte Mosley (London: Sceptre, 1997).

‘really very nice':
Christopher Isherwood, diary, 10 May 1948,
Diaries Volume One: 1939–1960
(London: Chatto & Windus, 1996).

‘livid light':
Nancy Mitford to Evelyn Waugh, 18 May 1951 (
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
).

‘a diatribe of':
James Lees-Milne,
Fourteen Friends
(London: John Murray, 1996),
p. 130.

‘a shared fondness':
Michael Scammell,
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic
(New York: Random House, 2009),
p. 495.

‘A man falls':
HG, ‘Falling in Love',
Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green
(London: Harvill, 1993).

‘must meet some time':
HY to Mary Keene, 21 March 1947 (private collection).

‘a very good':
HY to Mary Keene, 9 December 1957 (private collection).

‘beyond words wonderful':
HY to Matthew Smith, 4 December 1950 (private collection).

‘deepest sympathy':
HY to Matthew Smith, 21 January 1958 (private collection).

‘is to become':
Rosamond Lehmann, ‘An Absolute Gift',
Times Literary Supplement
, 6 August 1954.

‘Darling. I've read':
HY to Rosamond Lehmann, 30 August 1954 (RL KC).

‘The dark eyes':
Cynthia Koestler,
Stranger on the Square
(London: Hutchinson, 1984),
p. 221.

‘Only the other day':
HG, ‘For Jenny with Affection from Henry Green' (
Surviving
).

‘nothing, I believe':
CR, diary, 11 June 1961 (
LCW
).

‘I had that':
CR, diary, 24 December 1968 (
LCW
).

‘I do believe':
CR, diary, 24 May 1973 (
LCW
).

‘I shall never':
CR, diary, 14 June 1973 (
LCW
).

‘I am never':
CR, diary, 30 July 1973 (
LCW
).

‘I think of you':
CW to GG, 13 December 1975 (GG BU).

‘What a vast amount':
CW to GG, 18 May 1978 (GG BU).

‘ready to take on':
HG, ‘Before the Great Fire' (
Surviving
).

‘In February 1965':
see GG,
A World of my Own: A Dream Diary
(London: Penguin, 1993), pp. 39, 50.

‘Existence during the war':
EB, review of Angus Calder's
The People's War
(
The Mulberry Tree
).

Bibliography

Allain, Marie-Françoise,
The Other Man: Conversations with Graham Greene
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984)

Allen, Walter,
As I Walked Down New Grub Street
(London: Heinemann, 1981)

Babington Smith, Constance,
Rose Macaulay: A Biography
(London: Collins, 1972)

Beaton, Cecil,
Self-Portrait With Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton
, ed. Richard Buckle (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979)

Beckett, Francis,
Firefighters and the Blitz
(Wales: The Merlin Press, 2010)

Birkett, Jennifer,
Storm Jameson: A Life
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)

Bowen, Elizabeth,
A Time in Rome
(London: Vintage, 2010)

— A World of Love
(London: Jonathan Cape, 1957)

—
Bowen’s Court and Seven Winters
, introduction by Hermione Lee (London: Vintage, 1999)

—
Collected Impressions
(London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1950)

—
Collected Stories
, introduction by Angus Wilson (London: Vintage, 1999)

— Listening In: Broadcasts, Speeches and Interviews by Elizabeth Bowen
, ed. Allan Hepburn
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010)

—
Notes on Eire, Espionage Reports to Winston Churchill, 1940–2
, Aubane Historical Society, ed. Jack Lane and Brendan Clifford, 3rd edn

— People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen
, ed. Allan Hepburn (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008)

— The Heat of the Day
, introduction by Roy Foster (London: Vintage, 2008)

— The Last September
, introduction by Victoria Glendinning (London: Vintage, 1998)

—
The Mulberry Tree: Writings of Elizabeth Bowen
, ed. Hermione Lee (London: Vintage, 1999)

— The Shelbourne
(London: Vintage, 2001)