The Lost Girls
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Peter Quennell’s definition of the Lost Girls, The Wanton Chase (1980)
. . . an empty and destructive girl, mischievous but never lethal on any big scale.
Edmund Wilson on Barbara, The Fifties (1985)
. . . she had a look of someone always struggling to go beyond herself – to escape from her social class, the convent where she was educated, into some pagan aesthete world of artists and literary geniuses who could save her.
Stephen Spender on Sonia, New Selected Journals (2012)
On Friday I lunched with Christopher and Camilla and dined with Cyril Connolly. His mistress loves me still.
Evelyn Waugh on Lys, The Letters of Evelyn Waugh (1980)
. . . a wayward beauty who had been the Egeria to many remarkable men, some of whom she wed.
George Weidenfeld on Janetta, Remembering My Good Friends: An Autobiography (1995)
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THE LOST GIRLS
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