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Travel | Nina Hamnett | NH
's friendship with a London School of Art
student who was probably Paula Gellibrand
(1890?-1964) brought her an invitation to spend two months in Russia over the summer. This Paula was one of a... |
Reception | Nancy Cunard | NC
was also the exemplary subject for painters and photographers—Nina Hamnett
(who did a drawing of her for ten guineas at the request of Lady Cunard
), Hamnett, Nina. Laughing Torso. Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc. 209 |
Reception | Elinor Glyn | In spite of the clamour and outrage (or perhaps in part because of it), the novel was, as Cecil Beaton
remembered in his introduction to the 1974 re-issue, an overnight sensation, selling fast around the... |
Reception | Elinor Glyn | Philip de Laszlo
painted two portraits of EG
, one in 1912 and the other in 1927. They can be viewed on line at the John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery
website, at www.jssgallery.org. John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery. http://www.jssgallery.org/. under Elinor Glyn |
Publishing | Enid Bagnold | EB
published her last novel, The Loved and Envied, with a stylish cover designed by Cecil Beaton
. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 167 |
Publishing | Elinor Glyn | |
Publishing | Nancy Mitford | Madame de Pompadour was first published with a jacket by Cecil Beaton
. Her biographies (the study of Madame de Pompadour
being followed by Voltaire, 1957, Louis XIV
, 1966, and Frederick the Great
... |
Literary responses | Viola Tree | |
Leisure and Society | Virginia Woolf | After VW
turned down his request to photograph her, Cecil Beaton
included two drawings and a negative character sketch of her in his Book of Beauty, which was issued by the publishing firm of... |
Leisure and Society | Leonora Carrington | In her old age, LC
recalled her sensations on that night: I was wearing a tiara . . . . And it was biting into my skull. Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press. 21 |
Leisure and Society | Ivy Compton-Burnett | After the war Cecil Beaton
photographed ICB
for Vogue. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton. 191 |
Leisure and Society | Rosamond Lehmann | Stephen Spender
thought RLone of the most beautiful women of her generation. Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus. 51 |
Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | VT
strengthened her bonds with Osbert
, Edith
, and Sacheverell Sitwell
, and formed others with Peggy Guggenheim
, Isak Dinesen
(Karen Blixen), François Mitterand
, and Cecil Beaton
. Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton. 124-5, 135 |
Friends, Associates | Enid Bagnold | During the Second World War EB
became friendly with photographer Cecil Beaton
(with whom she exchanged plays), Lady Diana Cooper
, and actress Dame Edith Evans
. Later she also became a friend of MGM |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Cartland | BC
delighted in the company of the famous, beautiful, and charming. She frequented the Embassy Club
, as did Michael Arlen
, Cecil Beaton
, Charlie Chaplin
, and Gloria Vanderbilt
, and she counted... |
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