A passion for friendship : Sibyl Colefax and her circle

著者

• McLeod, Kirsty

書誌事項

A passion for friendship : Sibyl Colefax and her circle

Kirsty McLeod

Michael Joseph, 1991

注記

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Sibyl Colefax (1874-1950) was a society hostess of 1930s London; remembered, too, as the founder of the interior design company, Colefax and Fowler. This is a portrait of her life and her association with the personalities she brought together. This book explores Sibyl's friendships - with Harold Nicolson, Diana Cooper, the Windsors, Cole Porter, Noel Coward, Max Beerbohm, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, Bernard Berenson, Thornton Wilder and many others - providing a view of the celebrities of the period. She also analyzes Sibyl's unique nature that drew her to them: though some criticized her for "collecting" famous names, others found behind the relentlessly social personality a genuine and loyal friend, full of kindness and love of life. The author also wrote "The Wives of Downing Street", "Drums and Trumpets" and "The Last Summer".

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA65125865
• ISBN:
  • 0718131665
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: x, 179 p., [16] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : DA566.9.C614
  • DC20 : 942.081092
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Colefax, Sybil, 1874-1950
  • LCSH : Interior decorators -- England -- Biography