Contents Acknowledgments PART ONE Chapter 1 Alice at 9 Adams Road 1. Cambridge, Summer 1978 2. Holidays at 9 Adams Road 3. Delayed Adolescence 4. Cambridge University Centre 5. Potato Omelette with Rotten Eggs 6. Clandestine Visit to a College Pool 7. My Uncle Josep Maria at 9 Adams Road 8.
Alice''s Illness and Death 9. The Book 10. The Power of Origins Chapter 2 The First Tragedy: Accident in the Alps 1. Hôtel du Mont-Collon (Valais, Switzerland), April 2012 2. Hôtel du Mont-Collon (Valais, Switzerland), August 1898 3. The Accident Chapter 3 The Hopkinsons 1. Manchester, second half of the nineteenth century 2. Cambridge University (1867 - 1871) 3.
Evelyn Oldenbourg 4. Evelyn Hopkinson''s Memoirs 5. John Hopkinson''s Contribution to Advances in Electricity 6. A Night at the Opera 7. Evelyn and Her Passion for South Africa and Rhodes 8. Bertram Hopkinson and Mariana Siemens, Alice''s Parents 9. The Birth of Alice Hopkinson (Roughton) 10. Childhood 11.
Purchase of the House at Number 9 Adams Road 12. Cecil Hopkinson Chapter 4 The Second Tragedy: The Hopkinsons and the First World War 1. The First World War (1914 - 1918) 2. Cecil in the War (First Act of the Second Tragedy) 3. My Perceptions of the First World War 4. Bertram Hopkinson''s Plane (Second Act of the Second Tragedy) 5. Bertram''s Funeral (1918) Chapter 5 End of the Age of Innocence 1. The Hopkinson Widows 2.
Journey to South Africa (from 20 September to 10 December, 1922) 3. Hopkinson House 4. Construction of the Oak Room at 9 Adams Road 5. Alice at University 6. Engagement and Marriage of Alice Hopkinson and Jack Roughton 7. Small Intervals of Calm 8. The Death of Evelyn Hopkinson and the Roughton Family''s Move to 9 Adams Road 9. The Jungle 10.
Family Life at 9 Adams Road Chapter 6 Ideological Shaping 1. The Left in Cambridge Before the Second World War 2. Vincent House 3. Beatrice Webb and Alice Roughton 4. The Economist Joan Robinson 5. The High Point PART II Chapter 6 9 Adams Road in Wartime 1. Changes at 9 Adams Road 2. Animal Farm: Frances Walls 3.
John Maynard Keynes and Ballet Jooss 4. Evenings at 9 Adams Road 5. Sunday Evenings 6. German Prisoners Chapter 7 Robert Gerhard 1. Robert Gerhard in Cambridge (1939) 2. An Enigmatic lady in the Kitchen at 9 Adams Road: From Joan Miró''s Abstract Art to Robert Gerhard''s Electronic Music 3. The Fernández-Shaw Family 4. Alice Roughton as Pandora 5.
The Hispanists Trend and Dent Chapter 8 1939: Intimacies 1. Manuscript Discovered in the Cambridgeshire Archives 2. Confidences 3. Joyfully Happy PART III Chapter 9 After the War 1. Changes 2. Return of the Family from the United States 3. Good Manners in Marriage 4. Contempt for Foreigners and the Spirit of 1945: Two Sides of the Same Coin 5.
The Spirit of ''45 at 9 Adams Road 6. Benjamin Britten Chapter 10 A New Life 1. Save Europe Now and Jack Goody 2. To Timbuktu by MG 3. Journey with Poldi to the South of France 4. Elias Bredsdorff 5. A Romantic Film 6. Finite Love 7.
Introspection: Will the Birds Sing? 8. Reading 9. Notes on a Trip to Denmark Chapter 11 9 Adams Road: More Than a Family 1. From Family Life to Community Life 2. Alice and Her Mother 3. Mariana''s Caravan 4. Gábor Cossa 5. Homosexual, Jewish, Ugly, Short, Scruffy and a Dancer Chapter 12 In the Fifties 1.
Maya Picasso (1952) 2. Visit to Maya Picasso in Paris, 20 October 2016 3. DNA at 9 Adams Road 4. The Scurfields and Baking Bread in the Aga 5. The Entrails of 9 Adams Road 6. Glider Flight 7. Alice, Nick Furbank and Alan Turing 8. Hungarians in 1956 PART IV Chapter 13 Doctor Alice Roughton 1.
Two Activities in Medicine, One Sole Profession 2. The Hippy Doctor of Cambridge 3. The Boiler Suit 4. Alice as a Psychiatrist and as a GP 5. Abortion 6. Fresh Air 7. Ponji''s Electroshock Chapter 14 Doctor Roughton''s Public Activism 1. Cambridge Civic Society 2.
Alice Roughton: A Kind of Jane Jacobs 3. Pacifist Activity 4. Stephen Hawking and Eating Nettles at 9 Adams Road Chapter 15 Cambridge Matters 1. Chinese New Year at 9 Adams Road 2. Joseph Needham 3. Dr. Roughton and Joseph Needham, Two Ways of Being in the World 4. Helmut Klose 5.
The Rolls Royce of Adams Road Chapter 16 The Seventies 1. The Death of Jack Roughton 2. The Bunsters 3. Perfectly Fresh 4. Joan Mascaró 5. Tetchu 6. Lisa Hill and her Russian Classes 7. Generosity Chapter 17 End 1.
Decline 2. Voyage autour de ma chambre 3. Epilogue Bibliography Index.