Title:
The lost girls : love & literature in wartime London / D.J. Taylor.
ISBN:
9781643133157
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Edition:
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Pegasus Books, 2020.
©2020
Physical Description:
xii, 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Contents:
A note on names -- Monetary values -- The cast in September 1939 -- Introduction: An evening in Bedford Square -- The wanton chase -- 'The little girl who makes everyone's heart beat faster' -- When the going was good: Lys, Connolly and Horizon 1939-45 -- Interlude: mapping the forties scene -- 'Skeltie darling...' -- Interlude: Glur -- Struggling to go beyond herself: Sonia 1918-45 -- Interlude: Angela -- Blinding impulsions: Janetta 1940-5 -- Interlude: Anna -- Cairo nights: Barbara 1943-4 -- Interlude: Joan -- Ways and means: lost girl style -- Interlude: on not being boring -- Sussex Place: Connolly, Lys, Janetta and others 1945-9 -- Interlude: Office life -- The man in the hospital bed: Sonia 1945-50 -- Interlude: Sonia's things -- The destructive element: Barbara, Connolly and others 1944-51 -- Interlude: parents and daughters -- The invisible worm: Cyril and the women -- Projections: the lost girls in fiction -- Interlude: Barbara's style -- Afterwards -- Finale: the last lost girl.
Summary:
"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.
Genre:
OCLC Number:
on1104401311
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