Customs and characters
by Peter Quennell
1982
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Anecdotes on a remarkably diverse collection of men and women who have interested and impressed the author during the last fifty years, including Greta Garbo, Cecil Beaton, Lady Diana Cooper, Augustus John, Alice Keppel and her daughter Violet Trefusis, Harold and Vita Nicolson, Roger Fry, Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Elizabeth Bowen, Rose Macauley, T.S. Eliot, Teilhard de Chardin, and Daisy Fellowes.