The Vanity Girl
By Compton Mackenzie
30 Apr, 2020
Published in 1920 In the troupe of variety actresses to which belonged that lively heroine, Sylvia Scarlett, there was one Miss Dorothy Lonsdale. She made an exalted marriage and became Countess of Clarehaven. The creator of Sylvia, Mr. Compton Mack
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Published in 1920 In the troupe of variety actresses to which belonged that lively heroine, Sylvia Scarlett, there was one Miss Dorothy Lonsdale. She made an exalted marriage and became Countess of Clarehaven. The creator of Sylvia, Mr. Compton Mackenzie, now relates the adventures of. Miss Lonsdale, both before and after she became a peeress. It is a funny, frisky world, sometimes gay and often tawdry; Johnnies and peers and guardsmen and journalists and actor-managers and chorus-girls, and elderly relatives, puritanical and otherwise. Less