London-based group of young aristocrats and socialites in the 20th century
This article is about young aristocrats of 1920s London. For other uses, see Bright young things (disambiguation).
Richard Plunket Greene, Olivia Plunket Greene, David Plunket Greene, Terence Greenidge, Elizabeth Frances Russell, and Evelyn Waugh.
The Bright Young Things, or Bright Young People,[1][2] was a term given by the tabloid press to a group of Bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in 1920s London.[3] They threw flamboyant fancy dress parties, went on elaborate treasure hunts through nighttime London, and some drank heavily or used illicit drugs — all of which was enthusiastically covered by journalists such as Charles Graves and Tom Driberg.[4]
They inspired a number of writers, including Nancy Mitford (Highland Fling), Anthony Powell (A Dance to the Music of Time), Henry Green (Party Going), Dorothy Sayers (Murder Must Advertise), and the poet John Betjeman. Evelyn Waugh's 1930 novel Vile Bodies, adapted as the 2003 film Bright Young Things, is a satirical look at this scene.[4] Cecil Beaton began his career in photography by documenting this set, of which he was a member.[5]
Prominent members of the group included:
Harold Acton
Patrick Balfour, Baron Kinross
Cecil Beaton
John Betjeman
Edward Burra
Robert Byron
Sheila Chisholm
Daphne Fielding
Edward Gathorne-Hardy
Terence Greenidge
Bryan Guinness
Gavin Henderson
Brian Howard
Arthur Jeffress
Teresa Jungman
Zita Jungman
Barbara Ker-Seymer
Oliver Messel
Diana Mitford
Nancy Mitford
Beverley Nichols
Brenda Dean Paul
Babe Plunket Greene
David Plunket Greene
Olivia Plunket Greene
Richard Plunket Greene
Elizabeth Ponsonby
Loelia Ponsonby
Anthony Powell
Elizabeth Russell
Edith Sitwell
Osbert Sitwell
Sacheverell Sitwell
Eleanor Smith
David Tennant
Stephen Tennant
Henry Thynne
William Walton
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Evelyn Waugh
Rex Whistler
Sunday Wilshin
Olivia Wyndham
Henry Yorke
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^Philip Hoare, ‘Tennant, Stephen James Napier (1906–1987)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004
^ abRubin, Martin (10 January 2009). "Book Review of "Bright Young People" - WSJ.com". Online.wsj.com. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
^"Cecil Beaton: in association with Sotheby's". Chris Beetles Galleries. 2009. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
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