Bright Young People
Bright Young Things, o Bright Young People[1][2], era un soprannome dato dalla stampa scandalistica a un gruppo di giovani aristocratici, mondani e bohémien della Londra degli anni '20[3]. Organizzavano elaborate feste in maschera, bevendo pesantemente o facendo uso di droghe.
Hanno ispirato un certo numero di scrittori, tra cui Nancy Mitford, Anthony Powell, Henry Green e il poeta John Betjeman. Il romanzo di Evelyn Waugh del 1930 Vile Bodies, dal cui adattamento è stato tratto il film del 2003 Bright Young Things, è uno sguardo satirico su questo periodo[4]. Cecil Beaton ha iniziato la sua carriera in fotografia documentando questo set, di cui era membro[5]. Il marchio di abbigliamento di lusso Tallulah Tennant deriva da due dei suoi membri, Tallulah Bankhead e Stephen Tennant[6].
Elenco di "Bright Young People" e dei loro associati
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Helen Duncombe (1866–1954) |
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Harold Acton (1904–1994) |
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William Acton (1906–1945) |
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Kathleen Adam Smith (?-1941) |
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John Amery (1912–1945) |
| Leo Amery (1873–1955) | |
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Michael Arlen (1895–1956) |
| Sylvia Ashley (1904–1977) | |
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Anthony Ashley-Cooper (1900–1947) |
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Mary Ashley-Cooper (1902–1936) |
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Margot Asquith (1864–1945) |
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Adele Astaire (1896–1981) |
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Clement Attlee (1883–1967) |
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Mae Bacon (1897–1981) |
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Hermione Baddeley (1906–1986) |
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Edythe Baker (1899–1971) |
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Oliver Baldwin (1899–1958) |
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Ruth Baldwin (1905–1937) |
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Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) |
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Patrick Balfour (1904–1976) |
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Thomas Balston (1883–1967) |
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Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) |
| John Banting (1902–1972) | |
| Alexander Baring (1898–1991) | |
| Maurice Baring (1874–1945) | |
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Poppy Baring (1901–1980) |
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Elvira Dolores Barney (1904–1936) |
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H. M. Bateman (1887–1970) |
| Beverley Baxter (1891–1964) | |
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Cecil Beaton (1904–1980) |
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Baba Beaton (1912–1973) |
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Nancy Beaton (1909–1999) |
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Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) |
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Clive Bell (1881–1964) |
| Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) | |
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Babe Bendir (1907-?) |
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Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) |
| Lord Berners (1883–1950) | |
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John Betjeman (1906–1984) |
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Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945) |
| Mona von Bismarck (1897–1983) | |
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Caroline Blackwood (1931–1996) |
| Edmund Blunden (1896–1974) | |
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Robert Boothby (1900–1986) |
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Clara Bow (1905–1965) |
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Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900–2002) |
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Maurice Bowra (1898–1971) |
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Brendan Bracken (1901–1958) |
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Georges Braque (1882–1963) |
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Diana Bridgeman (1907–1967) |
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Robert Bridges (1844–1930) |
| Valentine Browne (1891–1943) | |
| Frank Buchman (1878–1961) | |
| Guy Burgess (1911–1963) | |
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Edward Burra (1905–1976) |
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Clara Butt (1872–1936) |
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Mary Butts (1890–1937) |
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Julian Byng (1862–1935) |
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Robert Byron (1905–1941) |
| Denis Capel-Dunn (1903–1945) | |
| Dudley Carew (1903–1981) | |
| Billie Carleton (1896–1918) | |
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Dora Carrington (1893–1932) |
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Audrey Carten (1900–1977) |
| Kenneth Carten (1911–1980) | |
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Waveney Carten (1902–1990) |
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Barbara Cartland (1901–2000) |
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Luisa Casati (1881–1957) |
| Irene Castle (1893–1969) | |
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Lina Cavalieri (1874–1944) |
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Ivy Gordon-Lennox (1887–1982) |
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Victor Cazalet (1896–1943) |
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David Cecil (1902–1986) |
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David Cecil (1905–1981) |
| Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) | |
| William Chappell (1907–1994) | |
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Edna Woolman Chase (1877–1957) |
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Nina Chavchavadze (1901–1974) |
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G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) |
| Edward Chichester (1903–1975) | |
| Sheila Chisholm (1895–1969) | |
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Diana Churchill (1909–1963) |
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John Spencer-Churchill (1897-1972) |
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Winston Churchill (1874–1965) |
| Camille Clifford (1885–1971) | |
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Claud Cockburn (1904–1981) |
| Nevill Coghill (1899–1980) | |
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Sibyl Colefax (1874–1950) |
| Cyril Connolly (1903–1974) | |
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Diana Cooper (1892–1986) |
| Duff Cooper (1890–1954) | |
| Gladys Cooper (1888–1971) | |
| Noël Coward (1899–1973) | |
| Frederick Heyworth Cripps (1885–1977) | |
| Violet Cripps (1891-1983) | |
| Charles Cruttwell (1887–1941) | |
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Emerald Cunard (1872–1948) |
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Nancy Cunard (1896–1965) |
| Alexandra Curzon (1904–1995) | |
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Cynthia Curzon (1898–1933) |
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Georgiana Curzon (1910–1976) |
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Irene Curzon (1896–1966) |
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Mary Curzon (1887–1962) |
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Peregrine Cust (1899–1978) |
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Hugh Dalton (1887–1962) |
| Marion Davies (1897–1961) | |
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Lya De Putti (1897–1931) |
| Aubrey Dean Paul (1869–1961) | |
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Brenda Dean Paul (1907–1959) |
| Napper Dean Paul (1904–1972) | |
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Warwick Deeping (1877–1950) |
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Gaby Deslys (1881–1920) |
| Alec Douglas-Home (1903–1995) | |
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Elizabeth Douglas-Scott-Montagu (1909–2002) |
| Tom Driberg (1905–1976) | |
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John Drury-Lowe (1905–1960) |
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Gerald du Maurier (1873–1934) |
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Freda Dudley Ward (1894–1983) |
| Alfred Duggan (1903–1964) | |
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Hubert Duggan (1904–1943) |
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Dola Dunsmuir (1903–1966) |
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Eleonora Duse (1858–1924) |
| Anthony Eden (1897–1977) | |
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Edward Elgar (1857–1934) |
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T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) |
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Lily Elsie (1886–1962) |
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Baba d'Erlanger (1901–1945) |
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Mimi d'Erlanger (1874–1959) |
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Hamish St. Clair Erskine (1909–1973) |
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Gwen Farrar (1899–1944) |
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Daisy Fellowes (1902–1945) |
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Dorothy Fellowes-Gordon (1891–1991) |
| Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (1891–1992) | |
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Daphne Fielding (1904–1997) |
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Ronald Firbank (1886–1926) |
| Michael Foot (1913–2010) | |
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E. M. Forster (1879–1970) |
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John Fothergill (1876–1957) |
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Harry Fox-Strangways (1905–1964) |
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Gilbert Frankau (1884–1952) |
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Maxine Freeman-Thomas (b. 1901) |
| Essex French (1907–1996) | |
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Valerie French (1909–1997) |
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Roger Fry (1866–1934) |
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Anthea Gamble (1906–1960) |
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Patrick Gamble (1904–1956) |
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Greta Garbo (1905–1990) |
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Evelyn Gardner (1903–1994) |
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Herbert Gardner (1846–1921) |
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Edward Gathorne-Hardy (1901–1978) |
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Robert Gathorne-Hardy (1902–1973) |
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Paula Gellibrand (1898–1986) |
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Lillian Gish (1893–1993) |
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Douglas Goldring (1887–1960) |
| Victor Gollancz (1893–1967) | |
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Alastair Graham (1904–1982) |
| Robert Graves (1895–1985) | |
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Henry Green (1905–1973) |
| Graham Greene (1904–1991) | |
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Terence Greenidge (1902–1970) |
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Daisy Greville (1861–1938) |
| Ivor Guest (1903–1967) | |
| Aileen Guinness (1904–1999) | |
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Bryan Guinness (1905–1992) |
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Loel Guinness (1906–1988) |
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Maureen Guinness (1907–1998) |
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Meraud Guinness (1904–1993) |
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Oonagh Guinness (1910–1995) |
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Walter Guinness (1880–1944) |
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Claud Hamilton (1889–1975) |
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Patrick Hamilton (1904–1962) |
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Nina Hamnett (1890–1965) |
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Doris Harcourt (1900–1981) |
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Alfred Harmsworth (1865–1922) |
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Allanah Harper (1904–1992) |
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Pamela Harriman (1920–1997) |
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Roy Harrod (1900–1978) |
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Deirdre Hart-Davis (1909–1999) |
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L. P. Hartley (1895–1972) |
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Norman Hartnell (1901–1979) |
| Gavin Henderson (1902–1977) | |
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A. P. Herbert (1890–1971) |
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David Herbert (1908–1995) |
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Sidney Herbert (1906–1969) |
| John Heygate (1903–1976) | |
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Arden Hilliard (1904-?) |
| Quintin Hogg (1907–2001) | |
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Inez Holden (1903–1974) |
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Wanda Holden (1911–1956) |
| Vyvyan Holland (1886–1967) | |
| Christopher Hollis (1902–1977) | |
| David Horner (1900–1983) | |
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Brian Howard (1905–1958) |
| Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923–2014) | |
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William Howard (1902–1978) |
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Jobyna Howland (1880–1936) |
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Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) |
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Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986) |
| Derek Jackson (1906–1982) | |
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Audrey James (1902–1968) |
| Edward James (1907–1984) | |
| Julia James (1890–1964) | |
| Alice de Janzé (1899–1941) | |
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Arthur Jeffress (1905–1961) |
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Douglas Jerrold (1893–1964) |
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Augustus John (1878–1961) |
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William Joynson-Hicks (1865–1932) |
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Baby Jungman (1907–2010) |
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Zita Jungman (1904–2006) |
| Barbara Ker-Seymer (1905–1993) | |
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Nelson Keys (1886–1939) |
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George Kinnoull (1902–1938) |
| Philip Leyland Kindersley (1907–1995) | |
| George Alfred Kolkhorst (1897–1958) | |
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Alexander Korda (1893–1956) |
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Constant Lambert (1905–1951) |
| Osbert Lancaster (1908–1986) | |
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Elissa Landi (1904–1948) |
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Lillie Langtry (1853–1929) |
| George Lascelles (1923–2011) | |
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Charles Laughton (1899–1962) |
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Marie Laurencin (1883–1956) |
| James Laver (1899–1975) | |
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Hazel Lavery (1880–1935) |
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D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) |
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Gertrude Lawrence (1898–1952) |
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Susan Lawrence (1871–1947) |
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James Lees-Milne (1908–1997) |
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Rosamond Lehmann (1901–1990) |
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F. R. Leavis (1895–1978) |
| Rosa Lewis (1867–1952) | |
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Serge Lifar (1905–1986) |
| John "The Widow" Lloyd (1900–1978) | |
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Anita Loos (1889–1981) |
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Tilly Losch (1903–1975) |
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Dorothy Lygon (1912–2001) |
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Hugh Lygon (1904–1936) |
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Lettice Lygon (1906–1973) |
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Mary Lygon (1910–1982) |
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Sibell Lygon (1907–2005) |
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William Lygon (1903–1979) |
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Malcolm MacDonald (1901–1981) |
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Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937) |
| Julian MacLaren-Ross (1912–1964) | |
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Violet Manners (1856–1937) |
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Ethel Mannin (1900–1984) |
| Reginald Manningham-Buller (1905–1980) | |
| Edward Marjoribanks (1900–1932) | |
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Frances Marshall (1900–2004) |
| Rita Martin (1875–1958) | |
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) |
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Elsa Maxwell (1883–1963) |
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Nellie Melba (1861–1931) |
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Harry Melville (1908–2000) |
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Anne Messel (1902–1992) |
| Oliver Messel (1904–1978) | |
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Kate Meyrick (1875–1933) |
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Florence Mills (1896–1927) |
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David Mitford (1878–1958) |
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Deborah Mitford (1920–2014) |
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Diana Mitford (1910–2003) |
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Jessica Mitford (1917–1996) |
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Nancy Mitford (1904–1973) |
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Pamela Mitford (1907–1994) |
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Tom Mitford (1909–1945) |
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Unity Mitford (1914–1948) |
| Ivan Moffat (1918–2002) | |
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Gwen Mond (?-1982) |
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Henry Mond (1898–1949) |
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Evan Morgan (1893–1949) |
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Gloria Morgan (1904–1965) |
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Thelma Morgan (1904–1970) |
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Raymond Mortimer (1895–1980) |
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Oswald Mosley (1896–1980) |
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Edwina Mountbatten (1901–1960) |
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George Mountbatten (1892–1938) |
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Irene Denison (1890–1956) |
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Louis Mountbatten (1900–1979) |
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Nadejda Mountbatten (1896–1963) |
| Herbert Mundin (1898–1939) | |
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Basil Murray (1902–1937) |
| Vaughan Nash (1861–1932) | |
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Anna Neagle (1904–1986) |
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Beverley Nichols (1898–1983) |
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Harold Nicolson (1886–1968) |
| Richard Henry Brinsley Norton (1892–1954) | |
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Ivor Novello (1893–1951) |
| Sergej Platonovič Obolenskij (1890–1978) | |
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Marjorie Oelrichs (1908–1937) |
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Mark Ogilvie-Grant (1905–1969) |
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Nina Ogilvie-Grant (1906–1969) |
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Denise Orme (1885–1960) |
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George Orwell (1903–1950) |
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Frank Pakenham (1905–2001) |
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Pansy Pakenham (1904–1999) |
| Gina Palerme (1885–1977) | |
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Gaston Palewski (1901–1984) |
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Richard Pares (1902–1958) |
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Dorothea Parry (1876–1963) |
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Gwen Parry (1878–1959) |
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Hubert Parry (1848–1918) |
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Bridget Parsons (1907–1972) |
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Desmond Parsons (1910–1937) |
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Michael Parsons (1906–1979) |
| William Parsons (1873–1918) | |
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Ralph Partridge (1894–1960) |
| Kathleen Pelham Burn (1887–1966) | |
| Roland Penrose (1900–1984) | |
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Rosamond Pinchot (1904–1938) |
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David Plunket Greene (1904–1941) |
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Olivia Plunket Greene (1907–1958) |
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Richard Plunket Greene (1901–1978) |
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Poldowski (1879–1932) |
| Arthur Ponsonby (1871–1946) | |
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Elizabeth Ponsonby (1900–1940) |
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Loelia Ponsonby (1902–1993) |
| Matthew Ponsonby (1904–1976) | |
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Bridget Poulett (1912–1975) |
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Anthony Powell (1905–2000) |
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Violet Powell (1912–2002) |
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John Pratt (1899–1983) |
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Denis Pritt (1887–1972) |
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J. B. Priestley (1894–1984) |
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Alan Pryce-Jones (1908–2000) |
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Peter Quennell (1905–1993) |
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Terence Rattigan (1911–1977) |
| Gabrielle Ray (1883–1973) | |
| Maurice Richardson (1907–1978) | |
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Paul Robeson (1898–1976) |
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Peter Rodd (1904–1968) |
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Oriel Ross (1907–1994) |
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John Rothenstein (1901–1992) |
| Kennerley Rumford (1870–1957) | |
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Elizabeth Russell (1899–1986) |
| Gordon Russell (1892–1980) | |
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Alison Ruthven (1902–1974) |
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Peggy Ruthven (1902–1974) |
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Edward Sackville-West (1901–1965) |
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Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) |
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Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) |
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Sybil Sassoon |
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Elena Vittoria di Schleswig-Holstein (1870–1948) |
| John Seely (1899–1963) | |
| Patrick Seely (1905–1966) | |
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Alison Settle (1891–1980) |
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Norma Shearer (1902–1983) |
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Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) |
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Georgia Sitwell (1906–1980) |
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Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969) |
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Sacheverell Sitwell (1897–1988) |
| Terence Skeffington-Smyth (1905–1936) | |
| Barbara Skelton (1916–1996) | |
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Eleanor Smith (1902–1945) |
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Pamela Smith (1915–1982) |
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F. E. Smith (1872–1930) |
| Charles Snow (1905–1980) | |
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Philip Snowden (1864–1937) |
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Oscar Solbert (1885–1958) |
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Ivor Spencer-Churchill (1898–1956) |
| Stephen Spender (1909–1995) | |
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Bernard Spilsbury (1877–1947) |
| J. C. Squire (1884–1958) | |
| Albert Stanley (1874–1948) | |
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Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) |
| Jeanne Stourton (1913-1987) | |
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Alix Strachey (1892–1973) |
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John Strachey (1901–1963) |
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Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) |
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Lois Sturt (1900–1937) |
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Napier Sturt (1896–1940) |
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Eileen Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1891–1943) |
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George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1888–1963) |
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John Sutro (1903–1985) |
| Christopher Sykes (1907–1986) | |
| A. J. A. Symons (1900–1941) | |
| Julian Symons (1912–1994) | |
| Stephen Tallents (1884–1958) | |
| Paul Tanqueray (1905–1941) | |
| A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990) | |
| David Tennant (1902–1968) | |
| Stephen Tennant (1906–1987) | |
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Ernest Thesiger (1897–1961) |
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J. H. Thomas (1874–1949) |
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Henry Thynne (1905–1992) |
| Dorothy Todd (1883-?) | |
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Iris Tree (1897–1978) |
| Viola Tree (1884–1938) | |
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Violet Trefusis (1894–1972) |
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Sophie Tucker (1887–1966) |
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Clarita de Uriburu (1908–1995) |
| Francis Fortescue Urquhart (1868–1934) | |
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Rodolfo Valentino (1895–1926) |
| Robin Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1902–1955) | |
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Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964) |
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Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877–1964) |
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Hugh Wade (1907–1949) |
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Edward Wadsworth (1889–1949) |
| William Walton (1902–1983) | |
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Hugh Walpole (1884–1941) |
| Edward Frederick Ward (1907–1987) | |
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Georgina Moncreiffe (1846–1929) |
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Barbara Waring (1911–1990) |
| Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978) | |
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Peter Watson (1908–1956) |
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Alec Waugh (1898–1981) |
| Arthur Waugh (1866–1943) | |
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Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) |
| Anthony Edward Wolseley Weldon (1902–1971) | |
| Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (1910–1948) | |
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Rex Whistler (1905–1944) |
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Alice White (1904–1983) |
| Dolly Wilde (1895–1941) | |
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Ellen Wilkinson (1891–1947) |
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Sunday Wilshin (1905–1991) |
| Harold Wilson (1916–1995) | |
| Alastair Windsor (1914–1943) | |
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Giorgio, duca di Kent (1902–1942) |
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Edoardo, principe del Galles (1894–1972) |
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Frances Wodehouse (1884–1950) |
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P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) |
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Elsie de Wolfe (1859–1950) |
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Anna May Wong (1905–1961) |
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Edward Wood (1881–1959) |
| Douglas Woodruff (1897–1978) | |
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Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) |
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Elinor Wylie (1885–1928) |
| Olivia Wyndham (1897–1967) | |
| Pamela Wyndham (1871–1928) | |
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Joan Yarde-Buller (1908–1997) |
Note
- ↑ (EN) Pauline Thomas, 1920s Flapper Fashion History. C20th Costume History for Women in the 1920's, in fashion-era.com. URL consultato il 4 agosto 2015 (archiviato dall'url originale il 10 agosto 2015).
- ↑ (EN) 14 – 1920s Entertainment 1920s Music 1920s Popular Entertainment Radio 1922 Sports Pink Flannel, in englandattraction.com. URL consultato il 4 agosto 2015 (archiviato dall'url originale il 13 agosto 2015).
- ↑ (EN) Philip Hoare, ‘Tennant, Stephen James Napier (1906–1987)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004
- ↑ (EN) Martin Rubin, Book Review of "Bright Young People" - WSJ.com, su wsj.com, Online.wsj.com, 10 gennaio 2009. URL consultato l'8 maggio 2010.
- ↑ (EN) Cecil Beaton: in association with Sotheby's, su chrisbeetles.com, Chris Beetles Galleries, 2009. URL consultato il 2 aprile 2015 (archiviato dall'url originale il 2 aprile 2015).
- ↑ (EN) Copia archiviata, su tallulahtennant.co.uk. URL consultato il 24 febbraio 2019 (archiviato dall'url originale il 13 febbraio 2019).
Bibliografia
- D.J. Taylor, Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age, New York, DFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009, ISBN 0-374-11683-0. (U.S edition)
- D.J. Taylor, Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918–1940, London, Chatto & Windus, 2007, ISBN 0-7011-7754-3.(British edition)
Altri progetti
Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su Bright Young People
Collegamenti esterni
- (EN) Bright Young Things, su IMDb, IMDb.com.
- D.J Taylor, Bright Young People, su djtaylorwriter.co.uk. URL consultato il 2 aprile 2015.