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The bolterFrances Osborne

The bolter

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She was irresistible. She inspired fiction, fantasy, legend, and art.Some say she was "the Bolter" of Nancy Mitford's novel The Pursuit of Love. She "played" Iris Storm in Michael Arlen's celebrated novel about fashionable London's lost generation, The Green Hat, and Greta Garbo played her in A Woman of Affairs, the movie made from Arlen's book. She was painted by Orpen; photographed by Beaton; she was the model for Molyneaux's slinky wraparound dresses that became the look fo the age--the Jazz Age.Though not conventionally beautiful (she had a "shot-away chin"), Idina Sackville dazzled men…

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6 editions
  • Ebook · English · 2009
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307272324
  • Other · English · 2010
    Vintage Books · 344 pages · 9780307476425
  • Other · English · 2009
    Bolter
    Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 320 pages · 9780748111473
  • Other · English · 2009
    Alfred A. Knopf · 320 pages · 9780307270146
  • Other · English · 2009
    Virago · 9781844084807
  • Other · English · 2008
    Virago · 310 pages · 9781844084814
HistorySexual behaviorWomen colonistsColonistsNonfictionBiographyWomenWomen, great britain