Bright Young People
Bright Young Things, o Bright Young People[1][2], era un soprannome dato dalla stampa scandalistica a un gruppo di giovani aristocratici, mondani e bohémien della Londra degli anni '20[3]. Organizzavano elaborate feste in maschera, bevendo pesantemente o facendo uso di droghe.
Hanno ispirato un certo numero di scrittori, tra cui Nancy Mitford, Anthony Powell, Henry Green e il poeta John Betjeman. Il romanzo di Evelyn Waugh del 1930 Vile Bodies, dal cui adattamento è stato tratto il film del 2003 Bright Young Things, è uno sguardo satirico su questo periodo[4]. Cecil Beaton ha iniziato la sua carriera in fotografia documentando questo set, di cui era membro[5]. Il marchio di abbigliamento di lusso Tallulah Tennant deriva da due dei suoi membri, Tallulah Bankhead e Stephen Tennant[6].
Elenco di "Bright Young People" e dei loro associati
Immagine | Nome |
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Helen Duncombe (1866–1954) | |
Harold Acton (1904–1994) | |
William Acton (1906–1945) | |
Kathleen Adam Smith (?-1941) | |
John Amery (1912–1945) | |
Leo Amery (1873–1955) | |
Michael Arlen (1895–1956) | |
Sylvia Ashley (1904–1977) | |
Anthony Ashley-Cooper (1900–1947) | |
Mary Ashley-Cooper (1902–1936) | |
Margot Asquith (1864–1945) | |
Adele Astaire (1896–1981) | |
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) | |
Mae Bacon (1897–1981) | |
Hermione Baddeley (1906–1986) | |
Edythe Baker (1899–1971) | |
Oliver Baldwin (1899–1958) | |
Ruth Baldwin (1905–1937) | |
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) | |
Patrick Balfour (1904–1976) | |
Thomas Balston (1883–1967) | |
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) | |
John Banting (1902–1972) | |
Alexander Baring (1898–1991) | |
Maurice Baring (1874–1945) | |
Poppy Baring (1901–1980) | |
Elvira Dolores Barney (1904–1936) | |
H. M. Bateman (1887–1970) | |
Beverley Baxter (1891–1964) | |
Cecil Beaton (1904–1980) | |
Baba Beaton (1912–1973) | |
Nancy Beaton (1909–1999) | |
Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) | |
Clive Bell (1881–1964) | |
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) | |
Babe Bendir (1907-?) | |
Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) | |
Lord Berners (1883–1950) | |
John Betjeman (1906–1984) | |
Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945) | |
Mona von Bismarck (1897–1983) | |
Caroline Blackwood (1931–1996) | |
Edmund Blunden (1896–1974) | |
Robert Boothby (1900–1986) | |
Clara Bow (1905–1965) | |
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900–2002) | |
Maurice Bowra (1898–1971) | |
Brendan Bracken (1901–1958) | |
Georges Braque (1882–1963) | |
Diana Bridgeman (1907–1967) | |
Robert Bridges (1844–1930) | |
Valentine Browne (1891–1943) | |
Frank Buchman (1878–1961) | |
Guy Burgess (1911–1963) | |
Edward Burra (1905–1976) | |
Clara Butt (1872–1936) | |
Mary Butts (1890–1937) | |
Julian Byng (1862–1935) | |
Robert Byron (1905–1941) | |
Denis Capel-Dunn (1903–1945) | |
Dudley Carew (1903–1981) | |
Billie Carleton (1896–1918) | |
Dora Carrington (1893–1932) | |
Audrey Carten (1900–1977) | |
Kenneth Carten (1911–1980) | |
Waveney Carten (1902–1990) | |
Barbara Cartland (1901–2000) | |
Luisa Casati (1881–1957) | |
Irene Castle (1893–1969) | |
Lina Cavalieri (1874–1944) | |
Ivy Gordon-Lennox (1887–1982) | |
Victor Cazalet (1896–1943) | |
David Cecil (1902–1986) | |
David Cecil (1905–1981) | |
Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) | |
William Chappell (1907–1994) | |
Edna Woolman Chase (1877–1957) | |
Nina Chavchavadze (1901–1974) | |
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) | |
Edward Chichester (1903–1975) | |
Sheila Chisholm (1895–1969) | |
Diana Churchill (1909–1963) | |
John Spencer-Churchill (1897-1972) | |
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) | |
Camille Clifford (1885–1971) | |
Claud Cockburn (1904–1981) | |
Nevill Coghill (1899–1980) | |
Sibyl Colefax (1874–1950) | |
Cyril Connolly (1903–1974) | |
Diana Cooper (1892–1986) | |
Duff Cooper (1890–1954) | |
Gladys Cooper (1888–1971) | |
Noël Coward (1899–1973) | |
Frederick Heyworth Cripps (1885–1977) | |
Violet Cripps (1891-1983) | |
Charles Cruttwell (1887–1941) | |
Emerald Cunard (1872–1948) | |
Nancy Cunard (1896–1965) | |
Alexandra Curzon (1904–1995) | |
Cynthia Curzon (1898–1933) | |
Georgiana Curzon (1910–1976) | |
Irene Curzon (1896–1966) | |
Mary Curzon (1887–1962) | |
Peregrine Cust (1899–1978) | |
Hugh Dalton (1887–1962) | |
Marion Davies (1897–1961) | |
Lya De Putti (1897–1931) | |
Aubrey Dean Paul (1869–1961) | |
Brenda Dean Paul (1907–1959) | |
Napper Dean Paul (1904–1972) | |
Warwick Deeping (1877–1950) | |
Gaby Deslys (1881–1920) | |
Alec Douglas-Home (1903–1995) | |
Elizabeth Douglas-Scott-Montagu (1909–2002) | |
Tom Driberg (1905–1976) | |
John Drury-Lowe (1905–1960) | |
Gerald du Maurier (1873–1934) | |
Freda Dudley Ward (1894–1983) | |
Alfred Duggan (1903–1964) | |
Hubert Duggan (1904–1943) | |
Dola Dunsmuir (1903–1966) | |
Eleonora Duse (1858–1924) | |
Anthony Eden (1897–1977) | |
Edward Elgar (1857–1934) | |
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) | |
Lily Elsie (1886–1962) | |
Baba d'Erlanger (1901–1945) | |
Mimi d'Erlanger (1874–1959) | |
Hamish St. Clair Erskine (1909–1973) | |
Gwen Farrar (1899–1944) | |
Daisy Fellowes (1902–1945) | |
Dorothy Fellowes-Gordon (1891–1991) | |
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (1891–1992) | |
Daphne Fielding (1904–1997) | |
Ronald Firbank (1886–1926) | |
Michael Foot (1913–2010) | |
E. M. Forster (1879–1970) | |
John Fothergill (1876–1957) | |
Harry Fox-Strangways (1905–1964) | |
Gilbert Frankau (1884–1952) | |
Maxine Freeman-Thomas (b. 1901) | |
Essex French (1907–1996) | |
Valerie French (1909–1997) | |
Roger Fry (1866–1934) | |
Anthea Gamble (1906–1960) | |
Patrick Gamble (1904–1956) | |
Greta Garbo (1905–1990) | |
Evelyn Gardner (1903–1994) | |
Herbert Gardner (1846–1921) | |
Edward Gathorne-Hardy (1901–1978) | |
Robert Gathorne-Hardy (1902–1973) | |
Paula Gellibrand (1898–1986) | |
Lillian Gish (1893–1993) | |
Douglas Goldring (1887–1960) | |
Victor Gollancz (1893–1967) | |
Alastair Graham (1904–1982) | |
Robert Graves (1895–1985) | |
Henry Green (1905–1973) | |
Graham Greene (1904–1991) | |
Terence Greenidge (1902–1970) | |
Daisy Greville (1861–1938) | |
Ivor Guest (1903–1967) | |
Aileen Guinness (1904–1999) | |
Bryan Guinness (1905–1992) | |
Loel Guinness (1906–1988) | |
Maureen Guinness (1907–1998) | |
Meraud Guinness (1904–1993) | |
Oonagh Guinness (1910–1995) | |
Walter Guinness (1880–1944) | |
Claud Hamilton (1889–1975) | |
Patrick Hamilton (1904–1962) | |
Nina Hamnett (1890–1965) | |
Doris Harcourt (1900–1981) | |
Alfred Harmsworth (1865–1922) | |
Allanah Harper (1904–1992) | |
Pamela Harriman (1920–1997) | |
Roy Harrod (1900–1978) | |
Deirdre Hart-Davis (1909–1999) | |
L. P. Hartley (1895–1972) | |
Norman Hartnell (1901–1979) | |
Gavin Henderson (1902–1977) | |
A. P. Herbert (1890–1971) | |
David Herbert (1908–1995) | |
Sidney Herbert (1906–1969) | |
John Heygate (1903–1976) | |
Arden Hilliard (1904-?) | |
Quintin Hogg (1907–2001) | |
Inez Holden (1903–1974) | |
Wanda Holden (1911–1956) | |
Vyvyan Holland (1886–1967) | |
Christopher Hollis (1902–1977) | |
David Horner (1900–1983) | |
Brian Howard (1905–1958) | |
Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923–2014) | |
William Howard (1902–1978) | |
Jobyna Howland (1880–1936) | |
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) | |
Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986) | |
Derek Jackson (1906–1982) | |
Audrey James (1902–1968) | |
Edward James (1907–1984) | |
Julia James (1890–1964) | |
Alice de Janzé (1899–1941) | |
Arthur Jeffress (1905–1961) | |
Douglas Jerrold (1893–1964) | |
Augustus John (1878–1961) | |
William Joynson-Hicks (1865–1932) | |
Baby Jungman (1907–2010) | |
Zita Jungman (1904–2006) | |
Barbara Ker-Seymer (1905–1993) | |
Nelson Keys (1886–1939) | |
George Kinnoull (1902–1938) | |
Philip Leyland Kindersley (1907–1995) | |
George Alfred Kolkhorst (1897–1958) | |
Alexander Korda (1893–1956) | |
Constant Lambert (1905–1951) | |
Osbert Lancaster (1908–1986) | |
Elissa Landi (1904–1948) | |
Lillie Langtry (1853–1929) | |
George Lascelles (1923–2011) | |
Charles Laughton (1899–1962) | |
Marie Laurencin (1883–1956) | |
James Laver (1899–1975) | |
Hazel Lavery (1880–1935) | |
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) | |
Gertrude Lawrence (1898–1952) | |
Susan Lawrence (1871–1947) | |
James Lees-Milne (1908–1997) | |
Rosamond Lehmann (1901–1990) | |
F. R. Leavis (1895–1978) | |
Rosa Lewis (1867–1952) | |
Serge Lifar (1905–1986) | |
John "The Widow" Lloyd (1900–1978) | |
Anita Loos (1889–1981) | |
Tilly Losch (1903–1975) | |
Dorothy Lygon (1912–2001) | |
Hugh Lygon (1904–1936) | |
Lettice Lygon (1906–1973) | |
Mary Lygon (1910–1982) | |
Sibell Lygon (1907–2005) | |
William Lygon (1903–1979) | |
Malcolm MacDonald (1901–1981) | |
Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937) | |
Julian MacLaren-Ross (1912–1964) | |
Violet Manners (1856–1937) | |
Ethel Mannin (1900–1984) | |
Reginald Manningham-Buller (1905–1980) | |
Edward Marjoribanks (1900–1932) | |
Frances Marshall (1900–2004) | |
Rita Martin (1875–1958) | |
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) | |
Elsa Maxwell (1883–1963) | |
Nellie Melba (1861–1931) | |
Harry Melville (1908–2000) | |
Anne Messel (1902–1992) | |
Oliver Messel (1904–1978) | |
Kate Meyrick (1875–1933) | |
Florence Mills (1896–1927) | |
David Mitford (1878–1958) | |
Deborah Mitford (1920–2014) | |
Diana Mitford (1910–2003) | |
Jessica Mitford (1917–1996) | |
Nancy Mitford (1904–1973) | |
Pamela Mitford (1907–1994) | |
Tom Mitford (1909–1945) | |
Unity Mitford (1914–1948) | |
Ivan Moffat (1918–2002) | |
Gwen Mond (?-1982) | |
Henry Mond (1898–1949) | |
Evan Morgan (1893–1949) | |
Gloria Morgan (1904–1965) | |
Thelma Morgan (1904–1970) | |
Raymond Mortimer (1895–1980) | |
Oswald Mosley (1896–1980) | |
Edwina Mountbatten (1901–1960) | |
George Mountbatten (1892–1938) | |
Irene Denison (1890–1956) | |
Louis Mountbatten (1900–1979) | |
Nadejda Mountbatten (1896–1963) | |
Herbert Mundin (1898–1939) | |
Basil Murray (1902–1937) | |
Vaughan Nash (1861–1932) | |
Anna Neagle (1904–1986) | |
Beverley Nichols (1898–1983) | |
Harold Nicolson (1886–1968) | |
Richard Henry Brinsley Norton (1892–1954) | |
Ivor Novello (1893–1951) | |
Sergej Platonovič Obolenskij (1890–1978) | |
Marjorie Oelrichs (1908–1937) | |
Mark Ogilvie-Grant (1905–1969) | |
Nina Ogilvie-Grant (1906–1969) | |
Denise Orme (1885–1960) | |
George Orwell (1903–1950) | |
Frank Pakenham (1905–2001) | |
Pansy Pakenham (1904–1999) | |
Gina Palerme (1885–1977) | |
Gaston Palewski (1901–1984) | |
Richard Pares (1902–1958) | |
Dorothea Parry (1876–1963) | |
Gwen Parry (1878–1959) | |
Hubert Parry (1848–1918) | |
Bridget Parsons (1907–1972) | |
Desmond Parsons (1910–1937) | |
Michael Parsons (1906–1979) | |
William Parsons (1873–1918) | |
Ralph Partridge (1894–1960) | |
Kathleen Pelham Burn (1887–1966) | |
Roland Penrose (1900–1984) | |
Rosamond Pinchot (1904–1938) | |
David Plunket Greene (1904–1941) | |
Olivia Plunket Greene (1907–1958) | |
Richard Plunket Greene (1901–1978) | |
Poldowski (1879–1932) | |
Arthur Ponsonby (1871–1946) | |
Elizabeth Ponsonby (1900–1940) | |
Loelia Ponsonby (1902–1993) | |
Matthew Ponsonby (1904–1976) | |
Bridget Poulett (1912–1975) | |
Anthony Powell (1905–2000) | |
Violet Powell (1912–2002) | |
John Pratt (1899–1983) | |
Denis Pritt (1887–1972) | |
J. B. Priestley (1894–1984) | |
Alan Pryce-Jones (1908–2000) | |
Peter Quennell (1905–1993) | |
Terence Rattigan (1911–1977) | |
Gabrielle Ray (1883–1973) | |
Maurice Richardson (1907–1978) | |
Paul Robeson (1898–1976) | |
Peter Rodd (1904–1968) | |
Oriel Ross (1907–1994) | |
John Rothenstein (1901–1992) | |
Kennerley Rumford (1870–1957) | |
Elizabeth Russell (1899–1986) | |
Gordon Russell (1892–1980) | |
Alison Ruthven (1902–1974) | |
Peggy Ruthven (1902–1974) | |
Edward Sackville-West (1901–1965) | |
Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) | |
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) | |
Sybil Sassoon | |
Elena Vittoria di Schleswig-Holstein (1870–1948) | |
John Seely (1899–1963) | |
Patrick Seely (1905–1966) | |
Alison Settle (1891–1980) | |
Norma Shearer (1902–1983) | |
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) | |
Georgia Sitwell (1906–1980) | |
Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969) | |
Sacheverell Sitwell (1897–1988) | |
Terence Skeffington-Smyth (1905–1936) | |
Barbara Skelton (1916–1996) | |
Eleanor Smith (1902–1945) | |
Pamela Smith (1915–1982) | |
F. E. Smith (1872–1930) | |
Charles Snow (1905–1980) | |
Philip Snowden (1864–1937) | |
Oscar Solbert (1885–1958) | |
Ivor Spencer-Churchill (1898–1956) | |
Stephen Spender (1909–1995) | |
Bernard Spilsbury (1877–1947) | |
J. C. Squire (1884–1958) | |
Albert Stanley (1874–1948) | |
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) | |
Jeanne Stourton (1913-1987) | |
Alix Strachey (1892–1973) | |
John Strachey (1901–1963) | |
Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) | |
Lois Sturt (1900–1937) | |
Napier Sturt (1896–1940) | |
Eileen Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1891–1943) | |
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1888–1963) | |
John Sutro (1903–1985) | |
Christopher Sykes (1907–1986) | |
A. J. A. Symons (1900–1941) | |
Julian Symons (1912–1994) | |
Stephen Tallents (1884–1958) | |
Paul Tanqueray (1905–1941) | |
A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990) | |
David Tennant (1902–1968) | |
Stephen Tennant (1906–1987) | |
Ernest Thesiger (1897–1961) | |
J. H. Thomas (1874–1949) | |
Henry Thynne (1905–1992) | |
Dorothy Todd (1883-?) | |
Iris Tree (1897–1978) | |
Viola Tree (1884–1938) | |
Violet Trefusis (1894–1972) | |
Sophie Tucker (1887–1966) | |
Clarita de Uriburu (1908–1995) | |
Francis Fortescue Urquhart (1868–1934) | |
Rodolfo Valentino (1895–1926) | |
Robin Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1902–1955) | |
Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964) | |
Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877–1964) | |
Hugh Wade (1907–1949) | |
Edward Wadsworth (1889–1949) | |
William Walton (1902–1983) | |
Hugh Walpole (1884–1941) | |
Edward Frederick Ward (1907–1987) | |
Georgina Moncreiffe (1846–1929) | |
Barbara Waring (1911–1990) | |
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978) | |
Peter Watson (1908–1956) | |
Alec Waugh (1898–1981) | |
Arthur Waugh (1866–1943) | |
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) | |
Anthony Edward Wolseley Weldon (1902–1971) | |
Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (1910–1948) | |
Rex Whistler (1905–1944) | |
Alice White (1904–1983) | |
Dolly Wilde (1895–1941) | |
Ellen Wilkinson (1891–1947) | |
Sunday Wilshin (1905–1991) | |
Harold Wilson (1916–1995) | |
Alastair Windsor (1914–1943) | |
Giorgio, duca di Kent (1902–1942) | |
Edoardo, principe del Galles (1894–1972) | |
Frances Wodehouse (1884–1950) | |
P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) | |
Elsie de Wolfe (1859–1950) | |
Anna May Wong (1905–1961) | |
Edward Wood (1881–1959) | |
Douglas Woodruff (1897–1978) | |
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) | |
Elinor Wylie (1885–1928) | |
Olivia Wyndham (1897–1967) | |
Pamela Wyndham (1871–1928) | |
Joan Yarde-Buller (1908–1997) |
Note
- ^ (EN) Pauline Thomas, 1920s Flapper Fashion History. C20th Costume History for Women in the 1920's, in fashion-era.com. URL consultato il 4 agosto 2015 (archiviato dall'url originale il 10 agosto 2015).
- ^ (EN) 14 – 1920s Entertainment 1920s Music 1920s Popular Entertainment Radio 1922 Sports Pink Flannel, in englandattraction.com. URL consultato il 4 agosto 2015 (archiviato dall'url originale il 13 agosto 2015).
- ^ (EN) Philip Hoare, ‘Tennant, Stephen James Napier (1906–1987)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004
- ^ (EN) Martin Rubin, Book Review of "Bright Young People" - WSJ.com, su wsj.com, Online.wsj.com, 10 gennaio 2009. URL consultato l'8 maggio 2010.
- ^ (EN) Cecil Beaton: in association with Sotheby's, su chrisbeetles.com, Chris Beetles Galleries, 2009. URL consultato il 2 aprile 2015 (archiviato dall'url originale il 2 aprile 2015).
- ^ (EN) Copia archiviata, su tallulahtennant.co.uk. URL consultato il 24 febbraio 2019 (archiviato dall'url originale il 13 febbraio 2019).
Bibliografia
- D.J. Taylor, Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age, New York, DFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009, ISBN 0-374-11683-0. (U.S edition)
- D.J. Taylor, Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918–1940, London, Chatto & Windus, 2007, ISBN 0-7011-7754-3.(British edition)
Altri progetti
Altri progetti
- Wikimedia Commons
- Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su Bright Young People
Collegamenti esterni
- Bright Young Things (2003), IMDb.com; Written and directed by Stephen Fry, based on Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies
- D.J Taylor, Bright Young People, su djtaylorwriter.co.uk. URL consultato il 2 aprile 2015.