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Mar 22, 20202 min read
Oxford Wits - Muses & The Beau Monde
The Oxford Wits were an identifiable group of literary and intellectual aesthetes and dandies, present as undergraduates at the...
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Lilium
Mar 18, 20203 min read
Alastair Hugh Graham - Muses & The Beau Monde
"Come and drink with me somewhere" Alastair Hugh Graham, born 27 June 1904, was an honorary attaché in Athens and Cairo, an Oxford friend...
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Lilium
Mar 15, 20206 min read
Hypocrites' Club - Muses & The Beau Monde
"Gentleman may prance but not dance."
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Lilium
Mar 11, 20201 min read
Evelyn Waugh - Muses & The Beau Monde
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh, born 28 October 1903, was an English writer of novels, biographies, travel books and he was also a prolific...
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Lilium
Mar 4, 20205 min read
Brian Howard - Muses & The Beau Monde
Brian Christian de Claiborne Howard, born the 13 March 1905 was an English poet and later a writer for the New Statesman. Howard was born...
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Feb 26, 20203 min read
Sunday Wilshin - Muses & The Beau Monde
Sunday Wilshin (1905–1991) was a British actress and radio producer; the successor to George Orwell on his resignation in 1943.
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Lilium
Feb 19, 20204 min read
Harold Acton - Muses & The Beau Monde
Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton, CBE, born 5 July 1904 was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete. Acton was born to a prominent...
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Lilium
Feb 12, 20204 min read
Siegfried Sassoon - Muses & The Beau Monde
Siegfried Sassoon, born 8 September 1886, was an English writer, poet and solider. Siegfried was born to a Jewish father and an...
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Lilium
Feb 5, 20202 min read
Edith Olivier - Muses & The Beau Monde
Edith Olivier, born 31 December 1872, was an English writer. She was also noted for acting as hostess to a circle of well-known writers,...
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Lilium
Jan 29, 20206 min read
Rex Whistler - Muses & The Beau Monde
"Jade green jerseys and scarves (I hope you don't mind) and bright magenta..." Reginald John "Rex" Whistler was a British artist,...
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Lilium
Jan 22, 20206 min read
Stephen Tennant - Muses & The Beau Monde
"Stephen Tennant is the most sparkling talker who ever comes to my house, and perhaps the most amusing." "Stephen Tennant was the most...
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Lilium
Jan 15, 20202 min read
Cecil Beaton - Muses & The Beau Monde
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE, born 14 January 1904, was an English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and...
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Lilium
Jan 8, 20204 min read
John Betjeman - Muses & The Beau Monde
Sir John Betjeman CBE, born in London on 28 August 1906, was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who...
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Lilium
Dec 31, 20191 min read
The Bright Young People Series - Muses & The Beau Monde
The Bright Young Things, with their classic beauty and often outrageous antics have and continue to be my main source of inspiration. The...
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