Meredith Etherington-Smith
Author of The Persistence of Memory: A Biography of Dali
About the Author
Works by Meredith Etherington-Smith
The "It" Girls: Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, the Couturière Lucile, and Elinor Glyn, romantic novelist (1986) 38 copies, 3 reviews
Christie's November - December 2014 - Preview Warhol Elvis Brando Post-War & Contemporary Art - New York (1600) 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1946
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- journalist
editor (Christie's magazine)
editor (Paris Vogue) - Nationality
- UK
- Places of residence
- Wales, UK (birth)
London, England, UK - Associated Place (for map)
- UK
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A dual-biography, of the sisters who grew up to become Lady Duff-Gordon, the fashion designer whose Maison Lucile 'personality dresses' took Edwardian London by storm, and Madame Elinor Glyn, author of the scandalous 'Three Weeks' and all-around authority on Romance and Sex-Appeal, or as she called it, 'IT'.
In some ways I wish this had been released as two separate volumes, because the back and forth, every other chapter format got a bit confusing at times. But what a fascinating portrait of show more two very different women who happened to be there at just the right time when their obsessions and creative outpouring perfectly matched with what people wanted. Of course, because Lucy's gorgeous clothes and Elinor's glamorous books were so perfectly Edwardian, both of them had a hard time once the Great War had destroyed the last vestiges of the old world and ushered in the Roaring Twenties.
TBC when I have more time... show less
In some ways I wish this had been released as two separate volumes, because the back and forth, every other chapter format got a bit confusing at times. But what a fascinating portrait of show more two very different women who happened to be there at just the right time when their obsessions and creative outpouring perfectly matched with what people wanted. Of course, because Lucy's gorgeous clothes and Elinor's glamorous books were so perfectly Edwardian, both of them had a hard time once the Great War had destroyed the last vestiges of the old world and ushered in the Roaring Twenties.
TBC when I have more time... show less
A dual-biography, of the sisters who grew up to become Lady Duff-Gordon, the fashion designer whose Maison Lucile 'personality dresses' took Edwardian London by storm, and Madame Elinor Glyn, author of the scandalous 'Three Weeks' and all-around authority on Romance and Sex-Appeal, or as she called it, 'IT'.
In some ways I wish this had been released as two separate volumes, because the back and forth, every other chapter format got a bit confusing at times. But what a fascinating portrait of show more two very different women who happened to be there at just the right time when their obsessions and creative outpouring perfectly matched with what people wanted. Of course, because Lucy's gorgeous clothes and Elinor's glamorous books were so perfectly Edwardian, both of them had a hard time once the Great War had destroyed the last vestiges of the old world and ushered in the Roaring Twenties.
TBC when I have more time... show less
In some ways I wish this had been released as two separate volumes, because the back and forth, every other chapter format got a bit confusing at times. But what a fascinating portrait of show more two very different women who happened to be there at just the right time when their obsessions and creative outpouring perfectly matched with what people wanted. Of course, because Lucy's gorgeous clothes and Elinor's glamorous books were so perfectly Edwardian, both of them had a hard time once the Great War had destroyed the last vestiges of the old world and ushered in the Roaring Twenties.
TBC when I have more time... show less
The It Girls: Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, the Couturiere Lucile, and Elinor Glyn, Romantic Novelist by Meredith Etherington-Smith
"Would you like to sin
With Elinor Glyn
On a tiger-skin?
Or would you prefer
To err
With her
On some other fur?"
Anon., popular verse, ca. 1907
With Elinor Glyn
On a tiger-skin?
Or would you prefer
To err
With her
On some other fur?"
Anon., popular verse, ca. 1907
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