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The Vanity Girl

By Compton Mackenzie

2020-04-30 18:55:08

Published in 1920 In the troupe of variety actresses to which belonged that lively heroine, Sylvia Scarlett, there was one Miss Dorothy Lonsdale. She made an exalted marriage and became Countess of Clarehaven. The creator of Sylvia, Mr. Compton Mack ... Read more
Published in 1920 In the troupe of variety actresses to which belonged that lively heroine, Sylvia Scarlett, there was one Miss Dorothy Lonsdale. She made an exalted marriage and became Countess of Clarehaven. The creator of Sylvia, Mr. Compton Mackenzie, now relates the adventures of. Miss Lonsdale, both before and after she became a peeress. It is a funny, frisky world, sometimes gay and often tawdry; Johnnies and peers and guardsmen and journalists and actor-managers and chorus-girls, and elderly relatives, puritanical and otherwise. Less

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File size458.157 KB
Print pages378
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1530132027
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Compton Mackenzie
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Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, OBE (17 January 1883 – 30 November 1972) was an English-born Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories, and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator,...

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