Jenkins, Nicholas

The narrator of Dance

Note: By definition, the whole of the Dance evolves through the interplay between the events and characters which Nick encounters, and everything is sifted through the filter of his narrative. As far as this Index is concerned, therefore, a comprehensive entry for him would simply replicate all the others. The following is a summary of the more salient links

episodes involving:

 Episodes

 Dates

family:

 father:

    Jenkins, Captain

 mother:

    Jenkins, Mrs

 uncle:

    Giles

 uncle:

    Martin

early years and education:

 childhood at Stonehurst:

    Episodes: 6. The Kindly Ones

    Places e): UK other fictional settings: Stonehurst

 childhood, other references to:

    BM 8-18; LM 5-14

 tutelage of Miss Orchard

 school:

    Episodes: 1. A Question of Upbringing

    Places e): UK other fictional settings: school

 La Grenadière:

    Episodes: 1. A Question of Upbringing

    Places g): Europe: La Grenadière

 university:

    Episodes: 1. A Question of Upbringing

    Places e): UK other fictional settings: university

career:

 in art-book publishing:

    Business and Companies: Tokenhouse ...

 in the film industry:

    Business and Companies: others

 in the Army during WW2:

  platoon commander in an infantry battalion:

    Episodes: 7. The Valley of Bones

    Places e): UK: other fictional settings: Battalion ...

  on staff of Divisional Headquarters:

    Episodes: 8. The Soldier's Art

    Places e): UK: other fictional settings: Divisional ...

  with military liaison at the War Office:

    Episodes: 9. The Military Philosophers

    Places c): London: other locations: Whitehall

 as writer:

  novels:

    Literature a) works of: novels by NJ

  criticism:

   work on Robert Burton:

    Literature a) works of: Borage and Hellebore

   reviewing:

    Business and Companies: Quiggin and Craggs

 as elder statesman of the literary world:

  the Venice Conference:

    Episodes: 11. Temporary Kings

  the Donners Memorial Prize committee:

    Episodes: 12. Hearing Secret Harmonies

  the Royal Academy banquet:

    Episodes: 12. Hearing Secret Harmonies

  retirement:

    Places c): UK other fictional settings: NJ's country ...

relationships:

 long entanglement with Kenneth Widmerpool

 long-lasting friendships with:

  Hugh Moreland

  JG Quiggin

  Mark Members

  Charles Stringham

  Peter Templer

  X Trapnel

 with women:

  youthful infatuation with:

   Jean Templer

   Suzette

   Barbara Goring

  sordid sex with Gypsy Jones

  passionate affair with Jean Duport: Jean Templer

  marriage to Lady Isobel Tolland

 other significant friendships with:

  Lindsay "Books" Bagshaw

  Ralph Barnby

  Rowland Gwatkin

  David Pennistone