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27. Zelda in practice clothes and pointe shoes, 1928.

28. Josephine (
centre
) and chorus line in a promotional picture for
Chocolate Dandies
, 1924.

29. Josephine in faux ragamuffin guise, Les Folies Bergère, 1926.

30. Poster for
La Revue Nègre
, designed by Paul Colin.

31. Josephine in the 1927 rhinestone-studded variation of her iconic banana skirt, 1927.

32. The Ebony Venus – one of a series of dynamic nude portraits taken by Lipnitzki,
c
.1926.

33. Josephine posing with carved African elephant, 1928.

NOTES

INTRODUCTION

  
1
  Jean-Claude Baker and Chris Chase,
Josephine: The Hungry Heart,
Cooper Square Press, New York, 2001, p. 3.

  
2
  Laura Claridge,
Tamara de Lempicka: A Life of Deco and Decadence,
Bloomsbury, London, 2001, p. 116.

  
3
  Scott Fitzgerald, ‘The Offshore Pirate’ in
Flappers and Philosophers,
Serenity Rockville, 2009, p. 9.

  
4
  Ibid, p. 27.

  
5
  
The Times,
5 February 1920.

  
6
  Scott Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby,
Penguin, London, 1974, p. 36 (first published 1926).

  
7
  
New York Times,
4 June 1923.

  
8
  Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, ‘Feminist – New Style’ in
Harper’s Monthly Magazine,
October 1927, p. 560, cited Joshua Zeitz,
Flapper,
Three Rivers Press, New York, 2006, p. 112.

  
9
  Robert A. Schanke,
That Furious Lesbian,
Southern Illinois University Press, 2003, p. 2.

10
  Nicholas Murray,
Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual,
Abacus, London, 2002, p. 157.

Chapter One
– DIANA

  
1
  ‘Expectation and hope’ cited by Joyce Marlow (ed.),
Women and the Great War,
Virago, London, 1999, p. 1.

  
2
  Cited by Philip Ziegler, Diana Cooper, Penguin, London, 1981, p. 145.

  
3
  Cited by Juliet Nicholson,
The Perfect Summer,
John Murray, London, 2006, p. 68.

  
4
  Cited by Ziegler, p. 53.

  
5
  Diana Cooper,
The Rainbow Comes and Goes (RCG),
Century, London, 1984, p. 156.

  
6
  Ibid, p. 17.

  
7
  Cited by Ziegler, p. 31.

  
8
  Cooper,
RCG,
p. 73.

  
9
  Ibid, p. 81.

10
  Cited by Ziegler, p. 55.

11
  Cooper,
RCG,
p. 61.

12
  Cited by Ziegler, p. 33.

13
  Jane C. Desmond (ed.),
Meaning in Motion: New Cultural Studies of Dance,
Duke University Press, 1997, p. 140.

14
  Cooper,
RCG,
p. 77.

15
  Ibid, p. 84.

16
  Ibid, p. 88.

17
  Cited by Ziegler, p. 93.

18
  Cooper,
RCG,
p. 82.

19
  Ibid, p. 106.

20
  Ibid, p. 82.

21
  Cited by Ziegler, p. 36.

22
  Cooper,
RCG,
p. 96.

23
  Artemis Cooper (ed.),
A Durable Fire: The Letters of Duff and Diana Cooper, 1913–1950,
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1983, April 1913, p. 6.

24
  Cited by Ziegler, p. 59.

25
  Ibid, p. 15.

26
  Ibid, p. 16.

27
  Ibid, p. 63.

28
  Ibid, p. 22.

29
  Cited by Nicholson, p. 78.

30
  Cited by Marlow, p. 22.

31
  Ibid, p. 49.

32
  Cooper,
RCG,
p. 123.

33
  Cited by Ziegler, p. 65.

34
  Enid Bagnold,
A Diary Without Dates,
Heinemann, London, 1918.

35
  Cooper,
RCG,
p. 131.

36
  Cited by Ziegler, p. 65.

37
  Cooper,
RCG,
p. 129.

38
  Cited by Marlow, p. 4.

39
  Cited by Ziegler, p. 114.

40
  Ibid, p. 61.

41
  
Daily Mail,
6 September 1916, cited in Lois Gordon,
Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse and Political Icon,
Columbia University Press, New York, 2007, p. 63.

42
  Cited by Ziegler, p. 71.

43
  Cooper,
RCG,
p. 151.

44
  John Julius Norwich (ed.),
The Duff Cooper Diaries,
Phoenix, London, 2005, 31 July 1916, p. 34.