The "It" Girls Quotes

“Sir Cosmo is a somewhat shadowy figure, largely because there are no surviving letters between him and Lucy. He was a keen sportsman and enjoyed life at Maryculter, the family house in Aberdeenshire, a great deal more than Lucy did, although she spent some time there in the very early years of their marriage. While there, one of his favourite sports was to make the younger members of the houseparty don fencing masks while he shot at them with wax bullets. This was meant to stiffen their resolve. He had lost an eye in a shooting accident but this did not stop him being an all-round athlete.

Unfortunately, Lucy's distrust of men was by now very deep-rooted.”
― Meredith Etherington-Smith, The "It" Girls: Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, The Couturière "Lucile", And Elinor Glyn, Romantic Novelist