LEADER 00000cam 2200505Ii 4500 001 sky297279703 003 SKY 005 20200207120700.0 008 190614t20202020nyuac b 001 0deng d 020 9781643133157 020 1643133152 040 YDX|beng|erda|cYDX|dBDX|dATNSH|dSAP|dGO6|dILM|dCLE|dOCLCF |dAPL|dUtOrBLW 043 e-uk---|ae-uk-en 082 04 941.0820092/2|223 092 941.0820092|bTAY 100 1 Taylor, D. J.|q(David John),|d1960- 245 14 The lost girls :|blove & literature in wartime London / |cD.J. Taylor. 250 First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. 264 1 New York :|bPegasus Books,|c2020. 264 4 |c©2020 300 xii, 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations ;|c24 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 still image|bsti|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 |tA note on names --|tMonetary values --|tThe cast in September 1939 --|tIntroduction: An evening in Bedford Square --|tThe wanton chase --|t'The little girl who makes everyone's heart beat faster' --|tWhen the going was good: Lys, Connolly and Horizon 1939-45 --|tInterlude: mapping the forties scene --|t'Skeltie darling...' --|tInterlude: Glur --|tStruggling to go beyond herself: Sonia 1918-45 -- |tInterlude: Angela --|tBlinding impulsions: Janetta 1940- 5 --|tInterlude: Anna --|tCairo nights: Barbara 1943-4 -- |tInterlude: Joan --|tWays and means: lost girl style -- |tInterlude: on not being boring --|tSussex Place: Connolly, Lys, Janetta and others 1945-9 --|tInterlude: Office life --|tThe man in the hospital bed: Sonia 1945-50 --|tInterlude: Sonia's things --|tThe destructive element: Barbara, Connolly and others 1944-51 --|tInterlude: parents and daughters --|tThe invisible worm: Cyril and the women --|tProjections: the lost girls in fiction -- |tInterlude: Barbara's style --|tAfterwards --|tFinale: the last lost girl. 520 "Who were the Lost Girls? Chic, glamorous, and bohemian, as likely to be found living in a rat-haunted maisonette as dining at the Ritz, Lys Lubbock, Sonia Brownell, Barbara Skelton, and Janetta Parlade cut a swath through English literary and artistic life at the height of World War II."--Amazon. 520 "Who were the Lost Girls? Chic, glamorous, and bohemian, as likely to be found living in a rat-haunted maisonette as dining at the Ritz, Lys Lubbock, Sonia Brownell, Barbara Skelton, and Janette Parlade cut a swatch through English literary and artistic life at the height of World War II. Three of them had affairs with Lucian Freud. One of them married George Orwell. Another became the mistress of the King of Egypt. All of them were associated with the decade's most celebrated literary magazine, Horizon. They had very different--and sometime explosive--personalities. But taken together, they form a distinctive part of the wartime demographic: bright, beautiful, independent-minded women with tough upbringings who were determined to make the most of their lives in the chaotic time. Ranging from Bloomsbury and Soho to Cairo and the culture studios of Schiaparelli and Hartnell, the Lost Girls would inspire the work of George Orwell, Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell, and Nancy Mitford. These women are the missing link between the Lost Generation and Bright young People of the 1920s and 1930s and the Dionysiac cultural revolution of the 1960s. Sweeping, passionate, and unexpectedly poignant, this is their untold story."-- Jacket. 600 10 Koch, Lys Dunlap,|d1917-1989. 600 10 Orwell, Sonia. 600 10 Skelton, Barbara. 600 10 Woolley, Janetta. 600 10 Connolly, Cyril,|d1903-1974|xFriends and associates. 600 10 Connolly, Cyril,|d1903-1974|xRelations with women. 650 0 Women|zGreat Britain|y20th century|vBiography. 650 0 Women|zGreat Britain|xHistory|y20th century. 651 0 Great Britain|xSocial life and customs|y20th century. 651 0 London (England)|xSocial life and customs|y20th century. 651 0 Great Britain|xSocial conditions|y20th century. 651 0 Great Britain|xIntellectual life|y20th century. 651 0 Great Britain|xHistory|yGeorge VI, 1936-1952. 655 7 Biographies.|2lcgft
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