A Passion for Friendship: Sibyl Colefax and Her Circle – Kirsty McLeod

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First Edition, Michael Joseph, 1991, Hardback with removable protective plastic wrap – Biographical – 180pp. ISBN 9780718131661.

Sibyl Colefax (1874-1950) was a society hostess of 1930s London; remembered, too, as the founder of the interior design company, Colefax and Fowler. This is a portrait of her life and her association with the personalities she brought together.

This book explores Sibyl’s friendships – with Harold Nicolson, Diana Cooper, the Windsors, Cole Porter, Noel Coward, Max Beerbohm, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, Bernard Berenson, Thornton Wilder and many others – providing a view of the celebrities of the period.

She also analyses Sibyl’s unique nature that drew her to them: though some criticised her for “collecting” famous names, others found behind the relentlessly social personality a genuine and loyal friend, full of kindness and love of life.

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