A decade-by-decade history of twentieth-century women, discussing the changes and interchanges that have taken place in the lives of British and American women in the years between 1900 and 1995; with essays on a variety of topics including popular fiction, prostitution, and lesbian culture, and brief biographies of approximately four hundred women.

"Who were the Lost Girls? Chic, glamorous, and bohemian, as likely to be found living in a rat-haunted maisonette as dining at the Ritz, Lys Lubbock, Sonia Brownell, Barbara Skelton, and Janetta Parlade cut a swath through English literary and artistic life at the height of World War II."--Amazon. Three of them had affairs with Lucian Freud. One of them married George Orwell. Another became the mistress of the King of Egypt. All of them were associated...