bright young things

{{Short description|London-based group of young aristocrats and socialites in the 20th century}}

{{about|young aristocrats of 1920s London}}

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File:Vile bodies.jpg, Olivia Plunket Greene, David Plunket Greene, Terence Greenidge, Elizabeth Frances Russell, and Evelyn Waugh.]]

The Bright Young Things, or Bright Young People,{{cite web|url=http://www.fashion-era.com/flapper_fashion_1920s.htm#The%20Flat%20Chest%20Of%20The%20Twenties|title=1920s Flapper Fashion History. C20th Costume History for Women in the 1920s|author=Pauline Thomas|work=fashion-era.com|access-date=4 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810092740/http://www.fashion-era.com/flapper_fashion_1920s.htm#The%20Flat%20Chest%20Of%20The%20Twenties|archive-date=10 August 2015|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.englandattraction.com/1920s.html|title=14 – 1920s Entertainment 1920s Music 1920s Popular Entertainment Radio 1922 Sports Pink Flannel|work=englandattraction.com|access-date=4 August 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813035307/http://www.englandattraction.com/1920s.html|archive-date=13 August 2015}} was a group of Bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in London during the Roaring Twenties. The name was given to them by the tabloid press.Philip Hoare, ‘Tennant, Stephen James Napier (1906–1987)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 They threw flamboyant fancy dress parties, went on elaborate treasure hunts through nighttime London, and some drank heavily or used illicit drugs — all of which was enthusiastically covered by journalists such as Charles Graves and Tom Driberg.{{cite web|last=Rubin |first=Martin |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123154973492170131 |title=Book Review of "Bright Young People" - WSJ.com |publisher=Online.wsj.com |date=2009-01-10 |access-date=2010-05-08}}

They inspired a number of writers, including Nancy Mitford (Highland Fling), Anthony Powell (A Dance to the Music of Time), Henry Green (Party Going), Dorothy Sayers (Murder Must Advertise), 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. Cecil Beaton began his career in photography by documenting this set, of which he was a member.{{cite web |url=http://www.chrisbeetles.com/exhibitions/cecil-beaton.html |title=Cecil Beaton: in association with Sotheby's |publisher=Chris Beetles Galleries |date=2009 |access-date=2015-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402124056/http://www.chrisbeetles.com/exhibitions/cecil-beaton.html |archive-date=2015-04-02 |url-status=dead }}

Prominent members of the group included:

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List of 'Bright Young Things', their associates, and those who documented them

The following is a list of the Bright Young Things, 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 Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell and Nancy Mitford.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/sep/29/featuresreviews.guardianreview2|title = DJ Taylor on the bohemian group of Bright Young People| website=TheGuardian.com |date = 29 September 2007}}

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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{{cite book|last1=Carpenter|first1=Humphrey|title=The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends|date=2013|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=9780571309283|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QUhlAgAAQBAJ|access-date=19 January 2018}}
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster{{cite book|last1=Lancaster|first1=Marie-Jaqueline|title=Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure|date=2005|publisher=Timewell Press|page=122|isbn=9781857252118|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7IVRYLb2wcAC&pg=PA122|access-date=20 January 2018}}

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|William Acton (1906–1945)

|Books:
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster
Newspaper articles:
Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque{{cite journal|title=Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque – 31 May 1930, Sat • Page 52|journal=The Winnipeg Tribune|date=1930|page=52|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16802072/the_winnipeg_tribune/|access-date=23 January 2018}}

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|Kathleen Adam Smith (1900–1941){{Cite web |title=Thomson, Kathleen Buchanan (1900-1941), wife of Sir George Paget Thomson - archives.trin.cam.ac.uk |url=https://archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/thomson-kathleen-buchanan-1900-1941-wife-of-sir-george-paget-thomson |access-date=2023-10-22 |website=Archives of Trinity College, Cambridge}}

|Newspaper articles:
Bright Young People of the Rising Generation

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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

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|Sylvia Ashley (1904–1977)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton
Portraits:
1933, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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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

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|Mary Ashley-Cooper (1902–1936)

|Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party

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|Adele Astaire (1896–1981)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton

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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

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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
Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque

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|Edythe Baker (1899–1971)

|Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party

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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

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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
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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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
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

|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{{cite journal|title=Bright Young People of the Rising Generation – 20 Sep 1924, Sat • Home Edition • Page 25|journal=The Winnipeg Tribune|date=1924|page=25|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16582763/the_winnipeg_tribune/|access-date=16 January 2018}}

|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

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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

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|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){{cite web|title=Anthony Wysard (1907–1984), Caricaturist|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp07945/anthony-wysard?role=art|website=National Portrait Gallery|access-date=25 January 2018}}

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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

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|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

|Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)

|Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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|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

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|Margot Bendir

|Newspaper articles:
Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque

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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

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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
Fictional characters:
Paul Fotheringay in Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford{{cite book|last1=Rintoul|first1=M.C.|title=Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction|date=2014|publisher=Routledge|page=397|isbn=9781136119408|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P3gBAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA397|access-date=18 January 2018}}

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|Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945)

|Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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|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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|Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900–2002)

|Newspaper articles:
London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts

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|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
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster

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|Brendan Bracken (1901–1958)

|Fictional characters:
Rex Mottram in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

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|Georges Braque (1882–1963)

|Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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|Lady Diana Bridgeman (1907–1967)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party

|Jessie Doris Browne (1900–1942)

|Portraits:
1931, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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|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)

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|Frank Buchman (1878–1961)

|Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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|Guy Burgess (1911–1963)

|Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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|Edward Burra (1905–1976)

|Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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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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|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
Fictional characters:
Albert Gates in Highland Fling by Nancy Mitford
Ben Gore in Blindness by Henry Green

|Denis Capel-Dunn (1903–1945)

|Books:
Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts
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

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|Billie Carleton (1896–1918)

|Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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|Dora Carrington (1893–1932)

|Fictional characters:
Betty Blyth in The Apes of God by Wyndham Lewis

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|Audrey Carten (1900–1977)

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|Kenneth Carten (1911–1980)

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|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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|Ivy Cavendish-Bentinck (1887–1982)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton

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|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)

|William Chappell (1907–1994)

|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

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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)

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|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)

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|Camille Clifford (1885–1971)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton

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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
Fictional characters:
Ed Spain in The Blessing by Nancy Mitford

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|Diana Cooper (1892–1986)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton
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
Fictional characters:
Mrs. Stitch, Evelyn Waugh novels
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
Newspaper articles:
Young People Take Big Treasure Hunt{{cite journal|title=Young People Take Big Treasure Hunt – 19 Sep 1924, Fri • Page 19|journal=The Bridgeport Telegram|date=1924|page=19|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16577191/the_bridgeport_telegram/|access-date=16 January 2018}}
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society

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|Duff Cooper (1890–1954)

|Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society

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|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
London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts
Portraits:
Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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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)

|Violet Cripps (1891–1983)

|Portraits:
1938, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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|C. R. M. F. Cruttwell (1887–1941)

|Books:
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter

|Alexandra Curzon (1904–1995)

|Newspaper articles:
Bright Young People of the Rising Generation

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|Cynthia Curzon (1898–1933)

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|Georgiana Curzon (1910–1976)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton

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|Irene Curzon (1896–1966)

|Newspaper articles:
Bright Young People of the Rising Generation

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|Mary Curzon (1887–1962)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton

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|Peregrine Cust (1899–1978)

|Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society

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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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|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{{cite web|title=Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts|url=http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/3141178/2/2016_PHP_PhD_Hallam_C.pdf|website=LSHTM Research Online|access-date=16 January 2018}}
Newspaper articles:
Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party

|Napper Dean Paul (1904–1972)

|Books:
Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts

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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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|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

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|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

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|John Drury-Lowe (1905–1960)

|Books:
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster

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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
Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society
London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts

|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

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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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|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)

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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

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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)

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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)

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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

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|Gwen Farrar (1899–1944)

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|Daisy Fellowes (1902–1945)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton

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|Dorothy Fellowes-Gordon (1891–1991)

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|Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (1891–1992)

|Newspaper articles:
Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque

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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)

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|Ronald Firbank (1886–1926)

|Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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|Michael Foot (1913–2010)

|Portraits:
1948, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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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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|Harry Fox-Strangways (1905–1964)

|Books:
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster

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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

|Essex French (1907–1996)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton

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|Valerie French (1909–1997)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton

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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

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|Patrick Gamble (1904–1956)

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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
Fictional characters:
Brenda Last in A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

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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

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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
Serena Blandish by Enid Bagnold

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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
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
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster

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|Graham Greene (1904–1991)

|Books:
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter

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|Terence Greenidge (1902–1970)

|Books:
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter

|Ivor Guest (1903–1967)

|Portraits:
1936, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

|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
Newspaper articles:
Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party

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|Loel Guinness (1906–1988)

|Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party{{cite journal|title=Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party – 16 Jul 1927, Sat • Page 33|journal=The Winnipeg Tribune|date=1927|page=33|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6009910/lady_bridget_parsons_one_of_the/|access-date=16 January 2018}}

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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|Deirdre Hart-Davis (1909–1999)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton

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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

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|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
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)

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|Quintin Hogg (1907–2001)

|Portraits:
1948, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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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

|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

|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
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster
Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts
Fictional characters
Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Donald Butterboy in The Roaring Queen by Wyndham Lewis
Newspaper articles:
Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party

|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

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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

|Edward James (1907–1984)

|Books:
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter

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|Julia James (1890–1964)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton

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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)

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|Baby Jungman (1907–2010)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton
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
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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|Zita Jungman (1904–2006)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Marriage of a "Bright Young Person"{{cite journal|title=Marriage of a "Bright Young Person". – 30 Jan 1929, Wed • Page 10|journal=The Guardian|date=1929|page=10|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16583142/the_guardian/|access-date=16 January 2018}}

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|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{{cite journal|title=Eminent Victorians – 23 May 1928, Wed • Page 19|journal=The Guardian|date=1928|page=19|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16583065/the_guardian/|access-date=16 January 2018}}

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|George Kinnoull (1902–1938)

|Newspaper articles:
Flaming Youth tries Britain's Patience{{cite journal|title=Flaming Youth tries Britain's Patience – 15 Sep 1929, Sun • Page 72|journal=The Baltimore Sun|date=1929|page=72|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16576191/the_baltimore_sun/|access-date=16 January 2018}}

|Philip Leyland Kindersley (1907–1995)

|Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

|George Alfred Kolkhorst (1897–1958)

|Books:
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter

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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

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|Elissa Landi (1904–1948)

|Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party

|George Lascelles (1923–2011)

|Portraits:
1936, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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|Charles Laughton (1899–1962)

|Portraits:
1936, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

|James Laver (1899–1975)

|Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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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

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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

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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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|Serge Lifar (1905–1986)

|Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

|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

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|Tilly Losch (1903–1975)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton

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|Lady Dorothy Lygon (1912–2001)

|Books:
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter
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
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster
Fictional characters:
Lord Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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|Lady 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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|Lady 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
Fictional characters:
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

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|Lady 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 by 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
Fictional characters:
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

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|Malcolm MacDonald (1901–1981)

|Portraits:
1936, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

|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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|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

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|Frances Marshall (1900–2004)

|Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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|Rita Martin (1875–1958)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton

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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)

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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

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|Anne Messel (1902–1992)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton

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|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
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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|Kate Meyrick (1875–1933)

|Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

Fictional characters:

Ma Mayfield in A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh{{Cite web|last=Shore|first=H|date=2013|title='Constable dances with instructress': the police and the Queen of Nightclubs in inter-war London|url=http://eprints.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/id/eprint/124/1/SocialHistoryConstable.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128164719/http://eprints.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/id/eprint/124/1/SocialHistoryConstable.pdf |archive-date=2021-01-28 |access-date=24 January 2021|website=Leeds Beckett Repository, Leeds Beckett University}}
Newspaper articles:
Flaming Youth tries Britain's Patience

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
Fictional characters:
Grace Marquise de Valhubert in Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford
Newspaper articles:
Lord Rennell's Son Engaged{{cite journal|title=Lord Rennell's Son Engaged – 27 Jul 1933, Thu • Page 10|journal=The Guardian|date=1933|page=10|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16583038/the_guardian/|access-date=16 January 2018}}

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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 Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford

|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)

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|Henry Mond (1898–1949)

|Portraits:
1929, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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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)

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|Gloria Morgan (1904–1965)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton

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|Thelma Morgan (1904–1970)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton
Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society

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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)

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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
Portraits:
1931, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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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{{cite journal|title=Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society – 10 Jan 1937, Sun • Page 95|journal=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=1937|page=95|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16577735/the_philadelphia_inquirer/|access-date=16 January 2018}}

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|George Mountbatten (1892–1938)

|Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society

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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

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|Nadejda Mountbatten (1896–1963)

|Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society

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|Herbert Mundin (1898–1939)

|Newspaper articles:
Eminent Victorians

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|Basil Murray (1902–1937)

|Books:
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter
Fictional characters:
Jasper Aspect in Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford

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|Anna Neagle (1904–1986)

|Portraits:
1937, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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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)

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|Ivor Novello (1893–1951)

|Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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|Serge Obolensky (1890–1978)

|Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party

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|Mark Ogilvy-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
Fictional characters:
Sir Ivor King in The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

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|Nina Ogilvy-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)

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|Denise Orme (1885–1960)

|Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party

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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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|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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|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

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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
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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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

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|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

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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
Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts
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

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|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
Society in London

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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{{cite journal|title=Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party – 15 Sep 1940, Sun • Page 43|journal=The Minneapolis Star|date=1940|page=43|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16576531/the_minneapolis_star/|access-date=16 January 2018}}
Society in London{{cite journal|title=Society in London – 28 Feb 1929, Thu • Page 7|journal=The Palm Beach Post|date=1929|page=7|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16577095/the_palm_beach_post/|access-date=16 January 2018}}
Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque

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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

|Matthew Ponsonby (1904–1976)

|Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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|Lady Bridget Poulett (1912–1975)

|Portraits:
1933, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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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
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)

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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

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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
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

|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
Fictional characters:
Basil Seal in the work of Evelyn Waugh is claimed by the author to have found basis in Peter Rodd. Evelyn Waugh, a Biography. P.41 Christopher Sykes. Publisher, Collins 1975.
Lady Beech in Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford
Christian Talbot in The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Newspaper articles:
Lord Rennell's Son Engaged

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|Oriel Ross (1907–1994)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton

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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

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|Elizabeth Russell (1899–1986)

|Fictional characters:
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{{cite book|last1=Beaton|first1=Cecil|title=The Book of Beauty|date=1933|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.218224|access-date=17 January 2018}}
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party

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|Peggy Ruthven (1902–1974)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton
Newspaper articles:
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party

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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

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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

|John Seely (1899–1963)

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|Patrick Seely (1905–1966)

|Portraits:
1935, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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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

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|Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton
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
Portraits:
1931, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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|Georgia Sitwell (1906–1980)

|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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|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

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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

|Terence Skeffington-Smyth (1905–1936)

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|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
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
Eminent Victorians
Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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|Pamela Smith (1915–1982)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton
Newspaper articles:
Eminent Victorians

|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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|Oscar Solbert (1885–1958)

|Newspaper articles:
Bright Young People of the Rising Generation

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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)

|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

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|J. C. Squire (1884–1958)

|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)

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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
Newspaper articles:
Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party
Portraits:
1937, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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|Lois Sturt (1900–1937)

|Newspaper articles:
Young People Take Big Treasure Hunt
British Girl Holds Record as Art Model
London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts
Portraits:
1929, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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|Napier Sturt (1896–1940)

|Newspaper articles:
British Girl Holds Record as Art Model{{cite journal|title=British Girl Holds Record as Art Model – 22 May 1921, Sun • Page 4|journal=San Francisco Chronicle|date=1921|page=4|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2612982/hon_lois_ina_sturt_much_painted/|access-date=16 January 2018}}

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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

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|George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1888–1963)

|Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society

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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
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster

|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

|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

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|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
Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque
Portraits:
1927, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

|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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|Henry Thynne (1905–1992)

|Books:
Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster
Portraits:
1940, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

|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
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor
Newspaper articles:
Young People Take Big Treasure Hunt

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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
London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts

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|Violet Trefusis (1894–1972)

|Fictional characters:
Lady Montdore in Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford

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|Clarita de Uriburu (1908–1995)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty of Cecil Beaton

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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)

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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

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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

|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)

|George Ward (1907–1988)

|Portraits:
Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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|Barbara Waring (1911–1990)

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|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

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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

|Anthony Edward Wolseley Weldon (1902–1971)

|Portraits:
1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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|Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (1910–1948)

|Portraits:
1934, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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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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|Dolly Wilde (1895–1941)

|Books:
Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts

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|Sunday Wilshin (1905–1991)

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|Harold Wilson (1916–1995)

|Books:
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor

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|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)

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|Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902–1942)

|Portraits:
1936, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)

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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
Flaming Youth tries Britain's Patience
London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts{{cite journal|title=London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts - 06 Sep 1924, Sat • Page 22|journal=Argus-Leader|date=1924|page=22|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16575725/argusleader/|access-date=25 January 2018}}

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|Frances Wodehouse (1884–1950)

|Newspaper articles:
Eminent Victorians

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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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|Anna May Wong (1905–1961)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton

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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

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|Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

|Books:
The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton
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

|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
Newspaper articles:
Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque
London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts

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|Joan Yarde-Buller (1908–1997)

|Newspaper articles:
Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society
Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party

References

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  • {{cite book | last=Carpenter | first=Humphrey | title=The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends | location=London | publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson | year=1989 | isbn=978-0-29779320-5 }}
  • {{cite book | last=Green | first=Martin | title=Children of the Sun: A Narrative of Decadence in England After 1918 | location=London | publisher=Constable | year=1977 | isbn=978-0-09461430-7 }}
  • {{cite book | last=Hollis | first=Christopher | title=Oxford in the Twenties | location=London | publisher=William Heinemann | year=1976 | isbn=978-0-434-34531-1 }}
  • {{cite book | last=Taylor | first=D.J. | title=Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age | location=New York | publisher=DFarrar, Straus and Giroux | year=2009 | isbn=978-0374116835 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/brightyoungpeopl00tayl }} (U.S edition)
  • {{cite book | last=Taylor | first=D.J. | title=Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918–1940 | location=London | publisher=Chatto & Windus | year=2007| isbn=978-0701177546}} (British edition)