The school is called 'Radcliff Hall' in a reference to the lesbian novelist Radclyffe Hall.īeaton lived for a time at Broad Chalke in Wiltshire and is buried there. Cecil Beaton Published byPimlico, 1991 ISBN 10: 0712651160ISBN 13: 9780712651165 Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom Contact seller Seller Rating: Used- SoftcoverCondition: Good £ 0.

The Girls of Radcliff Hall is a novel by the British composer Lord Berners (under the pseudonym 'Adela Quebec') in which he depicts himself and friends including Cecil Beaton and Oliver Messell as lesbian schoolgirls. Fearing libel suits in his own lifetime, it would have been foolhardy for Beaton to have included some of his more frank and incisive observations.Ĭecil Beaton attempted to have all the copies of a novel destroyed. These differ immensely in places to Beaton's original publications. Recently a number of unexpurgated diaries have been published. In his lifetime six volumes of diaries were published, spanning the years 1922–1974. See his autobiographical The Wandering Years (1962), The Happy Years (1972), Memoirs of the 40s (1973), and The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton. He also had relationships with women, including the actress Coral Browne, and the British socialite Doris, Viscountess Castlerosse.Ĭecil Beaton was also a published and well-known diarist. He provides wonderful insights into designers like Chanel and Yves Saint. A photographer, artist, writer and designer for more than fifty years, he was at the center of the worlds of fashion, society, theater and film. by Cecil Beaton (Author), Hugo Vickers (Editor). The great love of his life was the art collector Peter Watson, although they were never lovers. Cecil Beaton was one of the great twentieth-century tastemakers. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1970. Sir Cecil Beaton Sir Cecil Beaton (Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, 1904–1980) was a fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.

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