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May 19, 20211 min read
J. R. R. Tolkien - Muses & the Beau Monde
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL, 3 January 1892, was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of...
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May 12, 20213 min read
Lord David Cecil - Muses & the Beau Monde
Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil, CH, born 9 April 1902, was a British biographer, historian, and scholar. David Cecil was the...
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May 9, 20213 min read
George Platt Lynes - Gifted Gallery
George Platt Lynes, born April 15, 1907, was an American fashion and commercial photographer who worked in the 1930s and 1940s. He...
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May 5, 202113 min read
The Inklings - Muses & the Beau Monde
The Inklings were an informal literary discussion group associated with J. R. R. Tolkien at the University of Oxford for nearly two...
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Apr 25, 20215 min read
Tilly Losch - Muses & the Beau Monde
Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon née Losch, born November 15, 1903, known professionally as Tilly Losch, was an...
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Apr 14, 20215 min read
Maxine Blossom Miles - Muses & the Beau Monde
Maxine "Blossom" Miles, born 22 September 1901 as Maxine Forbes-Robertson, was a British aviation engineer, socialite, and businesswoman....
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Apr 7, 20211 min read
Anna May Wong - Muses & the Beau Monde
Anna May Wong, born Wong Liu Tsong; January 3, 1905, was an American actress, considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie...
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Mar 31, 20217 min read
Bronislava Nijinska - Muses & the Beau Monde
Bronislava Nijinska, born January 8, 1891, was a Polish ballet dancer, and an innovative choreographer. She came of age in a family of...
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Mar 24, 20218 min read
William Burges - Muses & the Beau Monde
William Burges ARA, born 2 December 1827, was an English architect and designer. Among the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, he...
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Mar 17, 20214 min read
Lady Ottoline Morrell - Muses & the Beau Monde
Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell, born 16 June 1873, was an English aristocrat and society hostess. Her patronage was influential in...
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Mar 3, 20216 min read
Margot Fonteyn - Muses & the Beau Monde
Dame Margaret Evelyn de Arias DBE (née Hookham) born 18 May 1919, known by the stage name Margot Fonteyn, was an English ballerina. She...
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Feb 24, 20219 min read
Annemarie Schwarzenbach - Muses & the Beau Monde
Annemarie Minna Renée Schwarzenbach, born 23 May 1908, was a Swiss writer, journalist and photographer. Her bisexual mother brought her...
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Feb 21, 20213 min read
Marianne Breslauer - Gifted Gallery
Marianne Breslauer, born 20 November 1909, was a German photographer, photojournalist and pioneer of street photography during the Weimar...
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Feb 17, 20215 min read
James Lee-Milne - Muses & the Beau Monde
(George) James Henry Lees-Milne, born 6 August 1908, was an English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National...
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Feb 10, 20216 min read
William Chappell - Muses and the Beau Monde
William Chappell, born 27 September 1907, was a British dancer, ballet designer and director. He is most noted for his designs for more...
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Feb 3, 20214 min read
Adele Astaire - Muses & the Beau Monde
Adele Astaire, born Adele Marie Austerlitz, later known as Lady Charles Cavendish; September 10, 1896, was an American dancer, stage...
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Lilium
Jan 31, 20218 min read
In the Time of Moss Roses, Stephen Tennant's Library - Livres du Mois
In January's Livres du Mois I share with you The Contents of Wilsford Manor, a catalogue containing the sale of the contents of Stephen...
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Jan 27, 20213 min read
Sacheverell Sitwell - Muses & the Beau Monde
Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet CH, born 15 November 1897, was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic...
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Jan 20, 20214 min read
Walter Rothschild - Muses & the Beau Monde
Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, born February 1868, was a British banker, politician, zoologist and...
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Jan 6, 20214 min read
Laurence Whistler - Muses & the Beau Monde
Sir Alan Charles Laurence Whistler CBE, born 21 January 1912, was a British poet, writer and artist, working in particular in glass...
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