The lost girls: love & literature in wartime London [First Pegasus Books hardcover edition] 9781643133157, 1643133152

Who were the Lost Girls? Chic, glamorous, and bohemian, as likely to be found living in a rat-haunted maisonette as dini

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English Pages xii, 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm Year 2020

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.

The lost girls: love & literature in wartime London [First Pegasus Books hardcover edition]
9781643133157, 1643133152

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