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Jan 6, 20214 min read
Laurence Whistler - Muses & the Beau Monde
Sir Alan Charles Laurence Whistler CBE, born 21 January 1912, was a British poet, writer and artist, working in particular in glass...
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Lilium
Jun 24, 20202 min read
Deborah Mitford/Cavendish - Muses & The Beau Monde
I have only written a brief overview of the duchess because she was an incredible woman and there are many articles about her written by...
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Lilium
Jun 17, 20201 min read
Nancy Mitford - Muses & The Beau Monde
Nancy Freeman-Mitford CBE, born 28 November 1904, known as Nancy Mitford, was an English novelist, biographer and journalist. The eldest...
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Lilium
Jun 10, 20204 min read
Beverley Nichols - Muses & The Beau Monde
"Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums." Beverley Nichols is one of my favourite writers and...
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Lilium
Jun 3, 20202 min read
Loelia Lindsay - Muses & The Beau Monde
Loelia Mary, Lady Lindsay of Dowhill, née Ponsonby, born 6 February 1902, was a British peeress, needlewoman and magazine editor. Lindsay...
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Lilium
May 27, 20204 min read
The Plunket Greene's - Muses & The Beau Monde
David Plunket Greene, together with his brother Richard and sister Olivia, were part of the Bright Young Things who inspired the novel...
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May 20, 20202 min read
Barbara Ker-Seymer - Muses & The Beau Monde
The sharply radical portraitist of a "new English avant-garde." Barbara Marcia Ker-Seymer, born in Kensington 20 January 1905, was a...
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Lilium
May 13, 20205 min read
Oliver Messel - Muses & The Beau Monde
Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel, born 13 January 1904, was an English artist and one of the foremost stage designers of the 20th century....
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Lilium
May 6, 20202 min read
Peter Watson - Muses & The Beau Monde
Victor William (Peter) Watson, born 4 September 1908, was a wealthy English art collector and benefactor. Peter Watson is as mysterious...
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Lilium
Apr 29, 20202 min read
Edith Sitwell
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell, DBE, born 7 September 1887, was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. So...
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Lilium
Apr 22, 20203 min read
Sheila Chisholm - Muses & The Beau Monde
Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm born 9 September 1895, was an Australian socialite and "it girl" in British high society during and...
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Lilium
Apr 15, 20204 min read
Arthur Jeffress - Muses & The Beau Monde
Arthur Tilden Jeffress, born 21 November 1905 in Brentford, Middlesex, was an influential gallery owner, collector and patron of the arts...
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Lilium
Apr 8, 20207 min read
Teresa and Zita Jungman - Muses & The Beau Monde
They started the fashion for treasure hunts and masquerades that defined high society in the 1920s and even went as far as to try and...
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Lilium
Mar 25, 20202 min read
Hugh Lygon - Muses & The Beau Monde
Hugh Patrick Lygon was born 2 November 1904 in Rothenburg, Bavaria. He is often believed to be the one of the main inspirations for Lord...
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Lilium
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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Lilium
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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