The Long Party, High Society in the Twenties and Thirties
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Margetson, Stella. The Long Party, High Society in the Twenties and Thirties. First Edition. 1974. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition, with a trace of fraying to the jacket.
This book amusingly recalls the exciting and glamorous era when the Bright Young Things terrorized Mayfair. The author theorizes that their exploits were no more immoral than their Edwardian predecessors, only then “it did not matter what you did so long as you were not found out; now it did not matter what you did so long as you were talked about.” The epicenter of this book is London, with Paris, New York, and Hollywood as its satellites, and its central players are the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, hostesses like as Sibyl Colefax and Laura Corrigan, Cecil Beaton, and the Mitford sisters. Excellent, and with b & w photographic illustration throughout
“To be in the love was the fashion; to consummate a passionate affair quite another thing altogether, for skating on ice was more amusing than falling to the depths.”
--Stella Margetson
This book amusingly recalls the exciting and glamorous era when the Bright Young Things terrorized Mayfair. The author theorizes that their exploits were no more immoral than their Edwardian predecessors, only then “it did not matter what you did so long as you were not found out; now it did not matter what you did so long as you were talked about.” The epicenter of this book is London, with Paris, New York, and Hollywood as its satellites, and its central players are the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, hostesses like as Sibyl Colefax and Laura Corrigan, Cecil Beaton, and the Mitford sisters. Excellent, and with b & w photographic illustration throughout
“To be in the love was the fashion; to consummate a passionate affair quite another thing altogether, for skating on ice was more amusing than falling to the depths.”
--Stella Margetson
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