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Tea Gowns and Tiger Skins
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19870517
Author:Victoria Glendinning
THE "IT" GIRLS Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, the Couturie`re "Lucile," and Elinor Glyn, Romantic Novelist By Meredith Etherington-Smith and Jeremy Pilcher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 274 pp. $17.95
THIS BOOK is a rhapsody in rhinestones, a flamboyant contribution to the literature of high camp. The two sisters whose life-stories it tells were characters of "overheated excessiveness," as the authors write: "They dealt in mystery; in love-letters; in emeralds worn with clouds of purple chiffon; in secret passion."
They constructed careers out of their own and other women's fantasies. Their ...
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