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and behaviour, 7–8, 11–13, 17, 153; separation, divorce and settlement, 7, 9, 13–14, 25; at Marlow, 11; marriage to Visetti, 15–19; contests Raddyffe’s will, 25, 27; allowance from RH, 27, 66, 154; in RH s fiction, 64–5, 116–17; attends RH’s psychic reading, 100; dismisses servants, 151–2; on The Well of Loneliness, 151; debts, 152–4; and Viserti’s illness, 153–4; requests money for operation, 236; ill-health, 249, 287; breaks hip, 295; in old age, 303; learns of RH’s death, 359; Una withholds money from, 360, 362–3; in Una’s memoir of RH, 361; stroke and death, 362–3

Vivien, Renee, 147

Wallace, Sir Robert, 214–15, 217–18

Walpole, Hugh, 195, 214–15

Wang, Nadine, 276, 279

Warren, Lady (mother of Toby), 255–6

Warren, Nicholas Vincenzo Troubridge (Andrea’s son), 287, 322

Warren, Toby (Andrea’s husband), 155–6

Warrender, Lady Maud, 242

Warwick, Father, 97

Watts, George Frederic, 69

Waugh, Alec, 135, 139

Waugh, Evelyn, 193

Webber, Miss (secretary), 189

Well of Loneliness, The (RH; earlier Stephen; novel): writing, 148, 154, 159; themes and ideas, 151, 155–7, 159–64; publication, 167–72; reception and sales, 173–6, 214, 229; suppression campaign, 175–81, 183, 189–99, 213, 239, 404; Virginia Woolf disparages, 185–6; foreign translations and sales, 187; Paris edition, 188–9, 191, 214, 222; support for, 194–7, 204–5; court case, 201–9; condemned and ordered destroyed, 209–12; US publication and sales, 213–14, 367, 369; taken to appeal court, 214–17; lampooned and criticised, 219–20; prosecuted and cleared in USA, 220–21, 223–9; dramatization, 230, 234–7, 239–40; copyright dispute, 237; dedication, 293; under ban, 357; postwar publication, 367–8

Wells, H.G., 28, 193

West, (Dame) Rebecca, 135, 139

White Cottage see Malvern Wells

Widden, Mrs (Lynton landlady), 330, 333, 342–3, 370

Wilcox, Harry, 255

Wilde, Dolly, 230, 276, 293

Wilde, Oscar, 108, 171, 178, 203

Willcox, Sir William, 215, 217

Williams-Ellis, (Sir) Clough, 198

Windmill Press, 368

Wolfe, Humbert, 306

Wolff, Herb, 223

‘Woman in a Crêpe Bonnet’ (RH; story), 66

Woodbridge (solicitor), 360

Woods, Maurice, 71

Woods, Viola see Garvin, Viola

Woolf, Leonard, 173, 185–6, 195, 198, 209, 213

Woolf, Virginia: on The Well of Loneliness case, 185–6, 194–5, 198, 201, 205–7; on Edward Garnett, 196; Orlando, 186, 193

Woolley, Doris, 331

World, The (RH; novel), 136, 234

World War II: outbreak, 324–5; conduct of, 330

Wright, Dr Maurice, 218

Wylie, Ida, 121, 135, 173, 248–9

Wynne, Cuthbert, 52

Yeats-Brown, Francis, 241, 246

Zeani, Virginia, 375

About the Author

Diana Souhami is the author of many highly acclaimed books: Selkirk’s Island, winner of the 2001 Whitbread Biography Award; The Trials of Radclyffe Hall, shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography and winner of the Lambda Literary Award; the bestselling Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter, winner of the Lambda Literary Award and a New York Times Notable Book of 1997; Natalie and Romaine; Gertrude and Alice; Greta and Cecil; Gluck: Her Biography; and others. She lives in London and Devon.

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Copyright © 1999 by Diana Souhami

Cover design by Kathleen Lynch

ISBN: 978-1-4976-8334-1

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