The lost girls: love & literature in wartime London

A note on names

Monetary values

The cast in September 1939

Introduction: An evening in Bedford Square

The wanton chase

'The little girl who makes everyone's heart beat faster'

When the going was good: Lys, Connolly and Horizon 1939-45

Interlude: mapping the forties scene

'Skeltie darling...'

Interlude: Glur

Struggling to go beyond herself: Sonia 1918-45

Interlude: Angela

Blinding impulsions: Janetta 1940-5

Interlude: Anna

Cairo nights: Barbara 1943-4

Interlude: Joan

Ways and means: lost girl style

Interlude: on not being boring

Sussex Place: Connolly, Lys, Janetta and others 1945-9

Interlude: Office life

The man in the hospital bed: Sonia 1945-50

Interlude: Sonia's things

The destructive element: Barbara, Connolly and others 1944-51

Interlude: parents and daughters

The invisible worm: Cyril and the women

Projections: the lost girls in fiction

Interlude: Barbara's style

Afterwards

Finale: the last lost girl.