Bright young things




This article is about young aristocrats of 1920s London. For the film, see Bright Young Things (film).

The Bright Young Things, or Bright Young People,[1][2] was a nickname given by the tabloid press to a group of bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in 1920s London.[3] They threw elaborate fancy dress parties, went on elaborate treasure hunts through nighttime London, and some drank heavily or used drugs — all of which was enthusiastically covered by journalists such as Tom Driberg.[4] They inspired a number of writers, including Nancy Mitford (Highland Fling), Anthony Powell (A Dance to the Music of Time), Henry Green (Party Going) and the poet John Betjeman. Evelyn Waugh's 1930 novel Vile Bodies, adapted as the 2003 film Bright Young Things, is a satirical look at this scene.[4]Cecil Beaton began his career in photography by documenting this set, of which he was a member.[5]


The most prominent members of the group included:




  • Harold Acton

  • Patrick Balfour

  • Cecil Beaton

  • John Betjeman

  • Edward Burra

  • Robert Byron

  • Sheila Chisholm

  • Daphne Fielding

  • Edward Gathorne-Hardy

  • Bryan Guinness

  • Gavin Henderson

  • Brian Howard

  • Arthur Jeffress

  • Teresa Jungman

  • Zita Jungman

  • Barbara Ker-Seymer

  • Oliver Messel

  • Diana Mitford

  • Nancy Mitford

  • Beverley Nichols

  • Brenda Dean Paul

  • Babe Plunket-Greene

  • David Plunket Greene

  • Olivia Plunket Greene

  • Richard Plunket Greene

  • Terence Greenidge

  • Elizabeth Ponsonby

  • Loelia Ponsonby

  • Anthony Powell

  • Elizabeth Russell

  • Edith Sitwell

  • Osbert Sitwell

  • Sacheverell Sitwell

  • Stephen Tennant

  • Henry Thynne

  • William Walton

  • Sylvia Townsend Warner

  • Evelyn Waugh

  • Rex Whistler

  • Sunday Wilshin

  • Olivia Wyndham

  • Henry Yorke




List of 'Bright Young Things' and their associates


The following is a list of the Bright Young Things themselves, their friends, acquaintances and associates of the period, many of whom were the basis for characters in the novels written by members of the group such as Anthony Powell and Nancy Mitford, as indicated in the table below.[6]





























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































Image
 Name
 Characterization

Lady Helen Vincent.jpg
Helen D'Abernon (1866–1954)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Harold Acton (1904–1994)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure By Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster[9]

William Acton, Margot Bendir, Elizabeth Ponsonby, Harry Melville, Babe Plunket Greene at David Tennant's party 1928.jpg
William Acton (1906–1945)
Books:
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure By Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster[9]
Newspaper articles:
Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque[10]

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Kathleen Adam Smith (d. 1941)
Newspaper articles:
Bright Young People of the Rising Generation[11]

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John Amery (1912–1945)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Leo Amery (1873–1955)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Michael Arlen (1895–1956)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party[12]


Sylvia Ashley (1904–1977)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Portraits:
1933, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper (1900–1947)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Lettice Ashley-Cooper (1911–1990)
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party[12]

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Mary Ashley-Cooper (1902–1936)
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party[12]

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Margot Asquith (1864–1945)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Portraits:
1931, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Adele Astaire (1896–1981)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Clement Attlee (1883–1967)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Mae Bacon (1897–1981)
Newspaper articles:
London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts[14]

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Hermione Baddeley (1906–1986)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party[15]
Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque[10]

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Edythe Baker (1899–1971)
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party[12]

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Oliver Baldwin (1899–1958)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Ruth Baldwin (1905–1937)
Books:
Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts[16]

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Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Patrick Balfour (1904–1976)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure By Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster[9]
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Thomas Balston (1883–1967)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts[14]


John Banting (1902–1972)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Alexander Baring (1898–1991)
Newspaper articles:
Bright Young People of the Rising Generation[11]


Maurice Baring (1874–1945)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Poppy Baring (1901–1980)
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party[12]

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Elvira Dolores Barney (1904–1936)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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H. M. Bateman (1887–1970)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Beverley Baxter (1891–1964)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Cecil Beaton (1904–1980)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Baba Beaton (1912–1973)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Dancing to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
Newspaper articles:
Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque[10]

Cecil Beaton, and his sisters Nancy and Barbara, arriving at an Eton.jpg
Nancy Beaton (1909–1999)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Max Beerbohm (1872–1956)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Clive Bell (1881–1964)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

William Acton, Margot Bendir, Elizabeth Ponsonby, Harry Melville, Babe Plunket Greene at David Tennant's party 1928.jpg
Babe Bendir (b. 1907)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque[10]

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Margot Bendir
Newspaper articles:
Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque[10]

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Arnold Bennett (1867–1931)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Lord Berners (1883–1950)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Lord Merlin in Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
Lord Merlin in The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford[17]

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John Betjeman (1906–1984)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Fictional Characters:
Paul Fotheringay in Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford[17]

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Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Mona von Bismarck (1897–1983)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

Lady Caroline Blackwood; Maureen Constance Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (née Guinness), Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava.jpg
Caroline Blackwood (1931–1996)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Edmund Blunden (1896–1974)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Robert Boothby (1900–1986)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Clara Bow (1905–1965)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900–2002)
Newspaper articles:
London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts[14]

Sir Maurice Bowra; Sylvester Govett Gates; L.P. Hartley, by Lady Ottoline Morrell.jpg
Maurice Bowra (1898–1971)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure By Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster[9]

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Brendan Bracken (1901–1958)
Fictional Characters:
Rex Mottram in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Georges Braque, 1908, photograph published in Gelett Burgess, The Wild Men of Paris, Architectural Record, May 1910.jpg
Georges Braque (1882–1963)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

(Helen) Diana (née Bridgeman), Lady Abdy.jpg
Diana Bridgeman (1907–1967)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party[12]

Robert Bridges.jpg
Robert Bridges (1844–1930)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Jessie Doris Browne (1900-1942)
Portraits:
1931, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]


Valentine Browne (1891–1943)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Portraits:
1931, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]


Frank Buchman (1878–1961)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Guy Burgess (1911–1963)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

Edward Burra.jpg
Edward Burra (1905–1976)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Clara Butt (1872–1936)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party[12]
Portraits:
1931, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Mary Butts (1890–1937)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Julian Byng (1862–1935)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Robert Byron (1905–1941)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Fictional Characters:
Albert Gates in Highland Fling by Nancy Mitford
Ben Gore in Blindness by Henry Green[17]


Denis Capel-Dunn (1903–1945)
Books:
Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts[16]
Fictional Characters:
Kenneth Widmerpool in A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell


Dudley Carew (1903–1981)
Books:
Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts[16]

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Billie Carleton (1896–1918)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

Dora Carrington; Ralph Partridge; Lytton Strachey; Oliver Strachey; Frances Catherine Partridge (née Marshall), 1923.jpg
Dora Carrington (1893–1932)
Fictional Characters:
Betty Blyth in The Apes of God by Wyndham Lewis[17]

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Audrey Carten (1900–1977)


Kenneth Carten (1911–1980)

Waveney Hare Bicker-Caarten and Audrey Carten.jpg
Waveney Carten (1902–1990)

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Barbara Cartland (1901–2000)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Luisa Casati (1881–1957)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Irene Castle (1893–1969)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Lina Cavalieri (1874–1944)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

Ivy Gordon-Lennox by Philip de László.jpg
Ivy Cavendish-Bentinck (1887–1982)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

Mrs Cazalet and her Children (Victor Alexander Cazalet; Maud Lucia Cazalet (née Heron-Maxwell); Edward Cazalet).jpg
Victor Cazalet (1896–1943)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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David Cecil (1902–1986)

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David Cecil (1905–1981)
Portraits:
Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

Duncan Grant with the choreographer Frederick Ashton, and ballet dancers Lydia Lopokova and Billy Chappell.jpg
William Chappell (1907–1994)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Edna Woolman Chase (1877–1957)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Nina Chavchavadze (1901–1974)
Newspaper articles:
Bright Young People of the Rising Generation[11]

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G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Edward Chichester (1903–1975)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]


Sheila Chisholm (1895–1969)

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Diana Churchill (1909–1963)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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John Spencer-Churchill (1897–1972)
Portraits:
1934, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Camille Clifford (1885–1971)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Claud Cockburn (1904–1981)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Nevill Coghill (1899–1980)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Sibyl Colefax (1874–1950)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Fictional Characters:
Ed Spain in The Blessing by Nancy Mitford[17]

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Diana Cooper (1892–1986)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Fictional Characters:
Lady Leone in Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford
Lady Artemis Hooper in Aaron's Rod by D.H. Lawrence
Ruby, Lady Maclean in The Love and Envied by Enid Bagnold
Lady Queenie Paulle in The Pretty Lady by Arnold Bennett[17]
Newspaper articles:
Young People Take Big Treasure Hunt[18]
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society[19]


Duff Cooper (1890–1954)
Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society[19]


Gladys Cooper (1888–1971)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Young People Take Big Treasure Hunt[18]
London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts[14]
Portraits:
Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Noël Coward (1899–1973)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Max Pilgrim in A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell


Frederick Heyworth Cripps (1885–1977)
Portraits:
1938, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]


Violet Cripps (1891-1983)
Portraits:
1938, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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C. R. M. F. Cruttwell (1887–1941)
Books:
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]

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Emerald Cunard (1872–1948)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society[19]
Portraits:
1928, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Nancy Cunard (1896–1965)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Baby Bucktrout in The Roaring Queen by Wyndham Lewis[17]
Portraits:
1928, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]


Alexandra Curzon (1904–1995)
Newspaper articles:
Bright Young People of the Rising Generation[11]

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Cynthia Curzon (1898–1933)

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Georgiana Curzon (1910–1976)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Irene Curzon (1896–1966)
Newspaper articles:
Bright Young People of the Rising Generation[11]

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Mary Curzon (1887–1962)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Peregrine Cust (1899–1978)
Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society[19]

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Hugh Dalton (1887–1962)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Marion Davies (1897–1961)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Lya De Putti (1897–1931)
Newspaper articles:
Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque[10]


Aubrey Dean Paul (1869–1961)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Brenda Dean Paul (1907–1959)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts[16]
Newspaper articles:
Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party[15]


Napper Dean Paul (1904–1972)
Books:
Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts[16]

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Warwick Deeping (1877–1950)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Gaby Deslys (1881–1920)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Alec Douglas-Home (1903–1995)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Elizabeth Douglas-Scott-Montagu (1909–2002)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Tom Driberg (1905–1976)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]

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John Drury-Lowe (1905–1960)
Books:
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure By Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster[9]

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Gerald du Maurier (1873–1934)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Freda Dudley Ward (1894–1983)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society[19]
London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts[14]


Alfred Duggan (1903–1964)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]

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Hubert Duggan (1904–1943)
Fictional Characters:
Charles Stringham in A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell

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Dola Dunsmuir (1903–1966)

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Eleonora Duse (1858–1924)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]


Anthony Eden (1897–1977)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
Portraits:
Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Lily Elsie (1886–1962)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Baba d'Erlanger (1901–1945)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Mimi d'Erlanger (1874–1959)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters
Countess Flor di Folio in Serena Blandish by Enid Bagnold
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Hamish St. Clair Erskine (1909–1973)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Highland Fling by Nancy Mitford
Sir Roderick "Bobby" Bobbin in Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford[17]

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Gwen Farrar (1899–1944)

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Daisy Fellowes (1902–1945)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Dorothy Fellowes-Gordon (1891–1991)


Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (1891–1992)
Newspaper articles:
Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque[10]

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Daphne Fielding (1904–1997)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Portraits:
1940, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Ronald Firbank (1886–1926)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Michael Foot (1913–2010)
Portraits:
1948, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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E. M. Forster (1879–1970)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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John Fothergill (1876–1957)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]

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Harry Fox-Strangways (1905–1964)
Books:
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure By Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster[9]

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Gilbert Frankau (1884–1952)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Maxine Freeman-Thomas (b. 1901)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]


Essex French (1907–1996)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Valerie French (1909–1997)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Roger Fry (1866–1934)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Anthea Gamble (1906–1960)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts[16]

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Patrick Gamble (1904–1956)

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Greta Garbo (1905–1990)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Evelyn Gardner (1903–1994)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Fictional Characters:
Brenda Last in A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

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Herbert Gardner (1846–1921)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Edward Gathorne-Hardy (1901–1978)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party[15]

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Robert Gathorne-Hardy (1902–1973)

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Paula Gellibrand (1898–1986)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Serena Blandish by Enid Bagnold

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Lillian Gish (1893–1993)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Douglas Goldring (1887–1960)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Victor Gollancz (1893–1967)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Alastair Graham (1904–1982)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Fictional Characters:
Lord Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

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Robert Graves (1895–1985)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Henry Green (1905–1973)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure By Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster[9]

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Graham Greene (1904–1991)
Books:
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]

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Terence Greenidge (1902–1970)
Books:
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]

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Daisy Greville (1861–1938)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]


Ivor Guest (1903–1967)
Portraits:
1936, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]


Aileen Guinness (1904–1999)

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Bryan Guinness (1905–1992)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure By Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster[9]
Newspaper articles:
Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party[15]

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Loel Guinness (1906–1988)
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party[12]

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Maureen Guinness (1907–1998)

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Meraud Guinness (1904–1993)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Oonagh Guinness (1910–1995)
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Walter Guinness (1880–1944)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Claud Hamilton (1889–1975)
Books:
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure By Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster[9]

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Patrick Hamilton (1904–1962)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Nina Hamnett (1890–1965)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Doris Harcourt (1900–1981)
Newspaper articles:
Bright Young People of the Rising Generation[11]

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Alfred Harmsworth (1865–1922)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Allanah Harper (1904–1992)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Pamela Harriman (1920–1997)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Roy Harrod (1900–1978)
Books:
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure By Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster[9]

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Deirdre Hart-Davis (1909–1999)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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L. P. Hartley (1895–1972)

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Norman Hartnell (1901–1979)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Gavin Henderson (1902–1977)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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A. P. Herbert (1890–1971)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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David Herbert (1908–1995)

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Sidney Herbert (1906–1969)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


John Heygate (1903–1976)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Fictional Characters:
John Beaver in A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
Sir Piers Tofield in Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight by Henry Williamson

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Arden Hilliard (b. 1904)


Quintin Hogg (1907–2001)
Portraits:
1948, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Inez Holden (1903–1974)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Wanda Holden (1911–1956)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]


Vyvyan Holland (1886–1967)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Christopher Hollis (1902–1977)
Books:
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]


David Horner (1900–1983)

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Brian Howard (1905–1958)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure By Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster[9]
Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts[16]
Fictional Characters
Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Donald Butterboy in The Roaring Queen by Wyndham Lewis[17]
Newspaper articles:
Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party[15]


Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923–2014)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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William Howard (1902–1978)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]

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Jobyna Howland (1880–1936)
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party[12]

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Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Derek Jackson (1906–1982)

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Audrey James (1902–1968)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Edward James (1907–1984)
Books:
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]


Julia James (1890–1964)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Alice de Janzé (1899–1941)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Arthur Jeffress (1905–1961)
Books:
Alec Waugh, "A Year to Remember, A Reminiscence of 1931" Bloomsbury Reader, 1975
D.J. Taylor, "Bright Young People - The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age" Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2007
John Montgomery, "The Twenties," George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1970
Portraits:
Graham Sutherland, 1954
Ida Kar, 1959

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Douglas Jerrold (1893–1964)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Augustus John (1878–1961)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Portraits:
1949, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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William Joynson-Hicks (1865–1932)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Baby Jungman (1907–2010)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Zita Jungman (1904–2006)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Marriage of a "Bright Young Person"[20]


Barbara Ker-Seymer (1905–1993)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Nelson Keys (1886–1939)
Newspaper articles:
Eminent Victorians[21]

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George Kinnoull (1902–1938)
Newspaper articles:
Flaming Youth tries Britain's Patience[22]


Philip Leyland Kindersley (1907–1995)
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]


George Alfred Kolkhorst (1897–1958)
Books:
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]

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Alexander Korda (1893–1956)
Portraits:
1940, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Constant Lambert (1905–1951)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Hugh Moreland in A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell


Osbert Lancaster (1908–1986)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]

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Elissa Landi (1904–1948)
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party[12]

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Lillie Langtry (1853–1929)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]


George Lascelles (1923–2011)
Portraits:
1936, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Charles Laughton (1899–1962)
Portraits:
1936, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Marie Laurencin (1883–1956)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]


James Laver (1899–1975)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Hazel Lavery (1880–1935)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Newspaper articles:
Eminent Victorians[21]

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D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Gertrude Lawrence (1898–1952)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Susan Lawrence (1871–1947)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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James Lees-Milne (1908–1997)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Albert Gates in Highland Fling by Nancy Mitford[17]

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Rosamond Lehmann (1901–1990)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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F. R. Leavis (1895–1978)
Fictional Characters:
J G Quiggin in A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell

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Rosa Lewis (1867–1952)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Serge Lifar (1905–1986)
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]


John "The Widow" Lloyd (1900–1978)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Anita Loos (1889–1981)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Tilly Losch (1903–1975)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Dorothy Lygon (1912–2001)
Books:
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Fictional Characters:
Lady Cordelia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

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Hugh Lygon (1904–1936)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8] Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure By Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster[9]
Fictional Characters:
Lord Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Lettice Lygon (1906–1973)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

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Mary Lygon (1910–1982)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Fictional Characters:
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Vile Bodies to Evelyn Waugh

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Sibell Lygon (1907–2005)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Vile Bodies to Evelyn Waugh

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William Lygon (1903–1979)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Fictional Characters:
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh


Malcolm MacDonald (1901–1981)
Portraits:
1936, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party[15]
Flaming Youth tries Britain's Patience[22]
Society in London[23]
Portraits:
1936, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]


Julian MacLaren-Ross (1912–1964)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
X. Trapnel in A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell

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Violet Manners (1856–1937)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Ethel Mannin (1900–1984)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Reginald Manningham-Buller (1905–1980)
Fictional Characters:
Kenneth Widmerpool in A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell


Edward Marjoribanks (1900–1932)
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party[12]

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Frances Marshall (1900–2004)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Rita Martin (1875–1958)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Elsa Maxwell (1883–1963)
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Nellie Melba (1861–1931)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Harry Melville (1908–2000)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque[10]

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Anne Messel (1902–1992)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]


Oliver Messel (1904–1978)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure By Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster[9]
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Kate Meyrick (1875–1933)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Flaming Youth tries Britain's Patience[22]

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Florence Mills (1896–1927)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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David Mitford (1878–1958)
Fictional Characters:
General Murgatroyd in Highland Fling by Nancy Mitford
Uncle Matthew in The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford[17]

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Deborah Mitford (1920–2014)
Fictional Characters:
Northey Mackintosh in Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford
Linda Radlett in Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
Linda Radlett in The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford[17]

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Diana Mitford (1910–2003)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Flaming Youth tries Britain's Patience[22]

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Jessica Mitford (1917–1996)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Jassy Radlett in Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
Jassy Radlett in The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford[17]

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Nancy Mitford (1904–1973)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Fictional Characters:
Grace Marquise de Valhubert in Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford[17]
Newspaper articles:
Lord Rennell's Son Engaged[24]

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Pamela Mitford (1907–1994)

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Tom Mitford (1909–1945)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Unity Mitford (1914–1948)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Eugenia Malmains in Wings on the Green by Nancy Mitford[17]


Ivan Moffat (1918–2002)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Gwen Mond (d. 1982)
Portraits:
1929, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Henry Mond (1898–1949)
Portraits:
1929, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Evan Morgan (1893–1949)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Portraits:
1929, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Gloria Morgan (1904–1965)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Thelma Morgan (1904–1970)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society[19]

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Raymond Mortimer (1895–1980)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Portraits:
1936, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Oswald Mosley (1896–1980)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Flaming Youth tries Britain's Patience[22]
Portraits:
1931, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Edwina Mountbatten (1901–1960)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society[19]

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George Mountbatten (1892–1938)
Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society[19]

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Irene Mountbatten (1890–1956)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Louis Mountbatten (1900–1979)
Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society[19]

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Nadejda Mountbatten (1896–1963)
Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society[19]


Herbert Mundin (1898–1939)
Newspaper articles:
Eminent Victorians[21]

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Basil Murray (1902–1937)
Books:
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Fictional Characters:
Jasper Aspect in Wings on the Green by Nancy Mitford[17]


Vaughan Nash (1861–1932)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Anna Neagle (1904–1986)
Portraits:
1937, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Beverley Nichols (1898–1983)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Harold Nicolson (1886–1968)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Richard Henry Brinsley Norton (1892–1954)
Portraits:
1931, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Ivor Novello (1893–1951)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Serge Obolensky (1890–1978)
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party[12]

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Marjorie Oelrichs (1908–1937)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Mark Ogilvie-Grant (1905–1969)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure By Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster[9]
Fictional Characters:
Sir Ivor King in The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

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Nina Ogilvie-Grant (1906–1969)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Denise Orme (1885–1960)
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party[12]

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George Orwell (1903–1950)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Erridge (Earl of Warminster) in A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell

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Frank Pakenham (1905–2001)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Erridge (Earl of Warminster) in A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell

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Pansy Pakenham (1904–1999)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Gina Palerme (1885–1977)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Gaston Palewski (1901–1984)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Charles-Edouard, Marquis de Valhubert in The Blessing by Nancy Mitford
Fabrice, Duc de Sauveterre in The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford[17]

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Richard Pares (1902–1958)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Dorothea Parry (1876–1963)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Gwen Parry (1878–1959)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

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Hubert Parry (1848–1918)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Bridget Parsons (1907–1972)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party[12]

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Desmond Parsons (1910–1937)

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Michael Parsons (1906–1979)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure By Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster[9]
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]


William Parsons (1873–1918)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Ralph Partridge (1894–1960)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Kathleen Pelham Burn (1887–1966)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]


Roland Penrose (1900–1984)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Rosamond Pinchot (1904–1938)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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David Plunket Greene (1904–1941)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure By Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster[9]
Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts[16]
Fictional Characters:
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

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Olivia Plunket Greene (1907–1958)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Hon. Agatha Runcible in Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
A Little Learning by Evelyn Waugh

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Richard Plunket Greene (1901–1978)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

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Poldowski (1879–1932)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Arthur Ponsonby (1871–1946)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party[15]
Society in London[23]

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Elizabeth Ponsonby (1900–1940)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party[15]
Society in London[23]
Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque[10]

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Loelia Ponsonby (1902–1993)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party[12]


Matthew Ponsonby (1904–1976)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Bridget Poulett (1912–1975)
Portraits:
1933, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Anthony Powell (1905–2000)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Fictional Characters:
Isobel Tolland in A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell

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Violet Powell (1912–2002)

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John Pratt (1899–1983)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Portraits:
1934, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Denis Pritt (1887–1972)
Fictional Characters:
Kenneth Widmerpool in A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell

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J. B. Priestley (1894–1984)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Alan Pryce-Jones (1908–2000)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]

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Peter Quennell (1905–1993)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Fictional Characters:
Mark Members in A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell

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Terence Rattigan (1911–1977)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Gabrielle Ray (1883–1973)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]


Maurice Richardson (1907–1978)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Paul Robeson (1898–1976)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Peter Rodd (1904–1968)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Fictional Characters:
Lady Beech in Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford
Christian Talbot in The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford[17]
Newspaper articles:
Lord Rennell's Son Engaged[24]

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Oriel Ross (1907–1994)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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John Rothenstein (1901–1992)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Kennerley Rumford (1870–1957)
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party[12]

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Elizabeth Russell (1899–1986)
 Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh


Gordon Russell (1892–1980)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Alison Ruthven (1902–1974)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party[12]

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Peggy Ruthven (1902–1974)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party[12]

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Edward Sackville-West (1901–1965)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
David Warbeck in The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford[17]

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Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Sybil Sassoon
Newspaper articles:
Eminent Victorians[21]

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Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1870–1948)
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party[12]


John Seely (1899–1963)


Patrick Seely (1905–1966)
Portraits:
1935, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Alison Settle (1891–1980)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Norma Shearer (1902–1983)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Lady Harriett Finnian-Shaw in The Apes of God by Wyndham Lewis[17]
Portraits:
1931, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Georgia Sitwell (1906–1980)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Lord Osmund Finnian-Shaw in The Apes of God by Wyndham Lewis[17]

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Sacheverell Sitwell (1897–1988)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Lord Phoebus Finnian-Shaw in The Apes of God by Wyndham Lewis[17]


Terence Skeffington-Smyth (1905–1936)


Barbara Skelton (1916–1996)
Fictional Characters:
Pamela Flitton in A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell

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Eleanor Smith (1902–1945)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party[15]
Eminent Victorians[21]
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Pamela Smith (1915–1982)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Newspaper articles:
Eminent Victorians[21]

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F. E. Smith (1872–1930)
Fictional Characters:
Rex Mottram in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh


C. P. Snow (1905–1980)
Fictional Characters:
J G Quiggin in A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell

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Philip Snowden (1864–1937)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Oscar Solbert (1885–1958)
Newspaper articles:
Bright Young People of the Rising Generation[11]

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Ivor Spencer-Churchill (1898–1956)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Portraits:
1931, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]


Stephen Spender (1909–1995)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Mark Members in A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell

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Bernard Spilsbury (1877–1947)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


J. C. Squire (1884–1958)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Albert Stanley (1874–1948)
Portraits:
1938, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Jeanne Stourton (1913-1987)
Portraits:
1933, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Alix Strachey (1892–1973)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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John Strachey (1901–1963)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Lytton Strachey (1880–1932)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Matthew Plunkett in The Apes of God by Wyndham Lewis
Cedric Furber in The Self-Condemned by Wyndham Lewis[17]
Newspaper articles:
Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party[15]
Portraits:
1937, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Lois Sturt (1900–1937)
Newspaper articles:
Young People Take Big Treasure Hunt[18]
British Girl Holds Record as Art Model[25]
London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts[14]
Portraits:
1929, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Napier Sturt (1896–1940)
Newspaper articles:
British Girl Holds Record as Art Model[25]

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Eileen Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1891–1943)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society[19]

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George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1888–1963)
Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society[19]

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John Sutro (1903–1985)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure By Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster[9]


Christopher Sykes (1907–1986)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]


A. J. A. Symons (1900–1941)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Julian Symons (1912–1994)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Stephen Tallents (1884–1958)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Paul Tanqueray (1905–1941)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


David Tennant (1902–1968)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party[15]
Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque[10]
Portraits:
1927, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Stephen Tennant (1906–1987)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Lord Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

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Ernest Thesiger (1897–1961)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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J. H. Thomas (1874–1949)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Henry Thynne (1905–1992)
Books:
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure By Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster[9]
Portraits:
1940, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]


Dorothy Todd (b. 1883)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Iris Tree (1897–1978)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Young People Take Big Treasure Hunt[18]

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Viola Tree (1884–1938)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Young People Take Big Treasure Hunt[18]
London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts[14]

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Violet Trefusis (1894–1972)
Fictional Characters:
Lady Montdore in Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford[17]

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Sophie Tucker (1887–1966)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Clarita de Uriburu (1908–1995)
Books:
The Book of Beauty of Cecil Beaton[7]


Francis Fortescue Urquhart (1868–1934)
Books:
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]

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Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Robin Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1902–1955)
Portraits:
1936, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877–1964)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Hugh Wade (1907–1949)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Edward Wadsworth (1889–1949)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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William Walton (1902–1983)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Hugh Walpole (1884–1941)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Edward Frederick Ward (1907–1987)
Portraits:
Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]


George Ward (1907–1988)
Portraits:
Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Georgina Ward (1846–1929)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Barbara Waring (1911–1990)


Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978)

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Peter Watson (1908–1956)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Alec Waugh (1898–1981)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]


Arthur Waugh (1866–1943)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]

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Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]


Anthony Edward Wolseley Weldon (1902–1971)
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]


Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (1910–1948)
Portraits:
1934, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Rex Whistler (1905–1944)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Alice White (1904–1983)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Dolly Wilde (1895–1941)
Books:
Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts[16]

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Ellen Wilkinson (1891–1947)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Sunday Wilshin (1905–1991)


Harold Wilson (1916–1995)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Alastair Windsor (1914–1943)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Portraits:
1936, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902–1942)
Portraits:
1936, Anthony Wysard (1907-1984)[13]

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Edward, Prince of Wales (1894–1972)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Young People Take Big Treasure Hunt[18]
Flaming Youth tries Britain's Patience[22]
London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts[14]

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Frances Wodehouse (1884–1950)
Newspaper articles:
Eminent Victorians[21]

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P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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Elsie de Wolfe (1859–1950)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society[19]

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Anna May Wong (1905–1961)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Edward Wood (1881–1959)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Douglas Woodruff (1897–1978)
Books:
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter[8]

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Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Fictional Characters:
Mrs Rhoda Hyman in The Roaring Queen by Wyndham Lewis[17]

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Elinor Wylie (1885–1928)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor


Olivia Wyndham (1897–1967)
Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts[16]
Newspaper articles:
Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque[10]
London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts[14]

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Pamela Wyndham (1871–1928)
Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton[7]

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Joan Yarde-Buller (1908–1997)
Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society[19]
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party[12]


References





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  5. ^ "Cecil Beaton: in association with Sotheby's". Chris Beetles Galleries. 2009. Retrieved 2015-04-02.


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  7. ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaaabacadaeafagahaiajakalamanaoapaqarasatauavawaxayazbabbbcbdbebfbgbhbibjbkblbmbnbobpbq Beaton, Cecil (1933). The Book Of Beauty. Retrieved 17 January 2018.


  8. ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaaabacadaeafagahaiajakalamanao Carpenter, Humphrey (2013). The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends. Faber & Faber. Retrieved 19 January 2018.


  9. ^ abcdefghijklmnopqr Lancaster, Marie-Jaqueline (2005). Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure. Timewell Press. p. 122. Retrieved 20 January 2018.


  10. ^ abcdefghijk "Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque – 31 May 1930, Sat • Page 52". The Winnipeg Tribune: 52. 1930. Retrieved 23 January 2018.


  11. ^ abcdefg "Bright Young People of the Rising Generation – 20 Sep 1924, Sat • Home Edition • Page 25". The Winnipeg Tribune: 25. 1924. Retrieved 16 January 2018.


  12. ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrst "Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party – 16 Jul 1927, Sat • Page 33". The Winnipeg Tribune: 33. 1927. Retrieved 16 January 2018.



  13. ^ abcdefghi "London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts - 06 Sep 1924, Sat • Page 22". Argus-Leader: 22. 1924. Retrieved 25 January 2018.


  14. ^ abcdefghijk "Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party – 15 Sep 1940, Sun • Page 43". The Minneapolis Star: 43. 1940. Retrieved 16 January 2018.


  15. ^ abcdefghij "Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts" (PDF). LSHTM Research Online. Retrieved 16 January 2018.


  16. ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy Rintoul, M.C. (2014). Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction. Routledge. p. 397. Retrieved 18 January 2018.


  17. ^ abcdef "Young People Take Big Treasure Hunt – 19 Sep 1924, Fri • Page 19". The Bridgeport Telegram: 19. 1924. Retrieved 16 January 2018.


  18. ^ abcdefghijklmn "Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society – 10 Jan 1937, Sun • Page 95". The Philadelphia Inquirer: 95. 1937. Retrieved 16 January 2018.


  19. ^ "Marriage of a "Bright Young Person". – 30 Jan 1929, Wed • Page 10". The Guardian: 10. 1929. Retrieved 16 January 2018.


  20. ^ abcdefg "Eminent Victorians – 23 May 1928, Wed • Page 19". The Guardian: 19. 1928. Retrieved 16 January 2018.


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  23. ^ ab "Lord Rennell's Son Engaged – 27 Jul 1933, Thu • Page 10". The Guardian: 10. 1933. Retrieved 16 January 2018.


  24. ^ ab "British Girl Holds Record as Art Model – 22 May 1921, Sun • Page 4". San Francisco Chronicle: 4. 1921. Retrieved 16 January 2018.




Sources



  • Taylor, D.J. (2009). Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age. New York: DFarrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0374116830. (U.S edition)

    • Taylor, D.J. (2007). Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918–1940. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 0701177543.(British edition)



External links




  • Bright Young Things (2003), IMDB.com; Written and directed by Stephen Fry, based on Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies


  • Taylor, D.J. "Bright Young People". djtaylorwriter.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-04-02.




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