Bibliograph

Type

Label

The lost girls, love & literature in wartime London, D.J. Taylor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The lost girls

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1104401311

Responsibility statement

D.J. Taylor

Sub title

love & literature in wartime London

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

Table Of 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

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