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  • ISBN: 9781472126863 (hardback)
  • Physical Description: xii, 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : ... Read More
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  • Publisher: London : Constable, 2019.

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Subject: London (England) Social life and customs 1900s (20th century)
Biography
Nineteen forties
World War II, 1939-1945 Great Britain
Women Great Britain History 1900s (20th century)
Women Great Britain Social conditions 1900s (20th century)
Women Great Britian Biography
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1001 . ‡aTaylor, D. J. ‡q(David John), ‡d1960- ‡eauthor.
24510. ‡aLost girls : ‡blove, war and literature 1939-1951 / ‡cD.J. Taylor.
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300 . ‡axii, 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : ‡billustrations, portraits ; ‡c25 cm
504 . ‡aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 . ‡aWho were the lost girls? At least a dozen or so young women at large in Blitz-era London have a claim to this title. But Lost girls concentrates on just four: Lys Lubbock, Sonia Brownell, Barbara Skelton and Janetta Woolley. Chic, glamorous and bohemian, they cut a swathe through English cultural life in the 1940s. 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, and its charismatic editor Cyril Connolly. Theirs was the world of the buzz bomb, the cocktail party behind blackout curtains, the severed hand on the pavement, the rustle of a telegram falling through the letterbox, the hasty farewell to a significant other; of living for the moment and snatching at pleasure before it disappeared. But if their trail runs through vast acreages of wartime life then, in the end, it returns to Connolly and his amorous web-spinning, in which all four of them regularly featured and which sometimes complicated their emotional lives to the point of meltdown. After Horizon's closure in 1950, the lost girls went on to have affairs with dukes, feature in celebrity divorce cases and make appearances in the novels of George Orwell, Evelyn Waugh, and Anthony Powell. However tiny their number, they remain a genuine missing link between the first wave of newly-liberated young women of the post-Great War era and the Dionysiac free-for-all of the 1960s. Hectic, passionate and at times unexpectedly poignant, this is their story.
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