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Chapter 9: War Work, War Play

Reginald Pound,
Selfridge
; Elizabeth Ewing,
The History of 20th Century Fashion
; Selfridges Archive; A. H. Williams,
No Name at the Door
; Jeffrey Meyers,
Somerset Maugham
; The Letters of Ralph Blumenfeld, House of Lords Library; University of Chicago Library and Selfridges Archive; Family Archives of Simon Wheaton Smith; Gordon Honeycombe,
Selfridges
; James Gardiner,
Gaby Deslys
; Cecil Beaton,
The Glass of Fashion
; Irene Castle,
Castles in the Air
; Elisabeth Marbury,
My Crystal Ball
; Selfridges Archive; Reginald Pound,
Selfridge
; Susan Mary Alsop,
Lady Sackville
; The Woolworths Virtual Museum; John K. Winkler,
Five & Ten
; Denis Mackail,
The Story of J. M. B.; Letters of Arnold Bennett
, Vol. II, 1889–1915; W. Somerset Maugham,
Plays: One
, introduction by Anthony Curtis; Barbara Cartland,
We Danced All Night
; Selfridges Archive.

Chapter 10: Castles in the Air

Selfridges Archive; Condé Nast Library; (on Highcliffe) Background information provided by Ian Stevenson; ‘Highcliffe Castle, Hampshire’,
Country Life
, 1 May 1942; Edward H. Short and Arthur C. Rickett,
Ring Up the Curtain
, p. 274; Correspondence between Dr E. Dillon and H. G. Selfridge, Selfridges Archive; Papers of Dr Joseph Emile Dillon, Stamford University Library; (on Serge de Bolotoff) Family Archives of Simon Wheaton Smith; Selfridges Archive;
New York Herald
(Paris), 20 May 1906;
Legendary Aviators and Aircraft of World War One
; Author correspondence with Mr T. F. Boettger; E. Charles Vivian,
A History of Aeronautics
, retrieved from the Internet (further information provided by Brian Riddle, Royal Aeronautical Society); (on the Hope Sale) Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections,
Nottingham University, and information provided by Ian Jenkins, Curator of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum; also Geoffrey B. Waywell,
The Lover and Hope Sculptures
, and Jonathan Scott,
The Pleasures of Antiquity
; Harry Gordon Selfridge,
The Romance of Commerce
; The Letters of Ralph Blumenfeld, House of Lords Library; Selfridges Archive; John Lane Papers, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin; Family Archives of Simon Wheaton Smith; Reginald Pound,
Selfridge
; Documents (including
Barton Breezes
) provided by Ian Stevenson;
Bournemouth Daily Echo
, 16 May 1918.

Chapter 11: Vices and Virtues

Alan Jenkins,
The Twenties
; Kate ‘Ma’ Meyrick,
Secrets of the ‘43’
; Ronald Blythe,
The Age of Illusion
; Condé Nast Library; Stella Margetson,
The Long Party
; Notes from Gordon Selfridge Jr, Selfridges Archive; A. H. Williams,
No Name at the Door
; Elizabeth Ewing,
The History of 20th Century Fashion
; Selfridges Archives; Reginald Pound,
Selfridge
; Condé Nast Library; Stella Margetson,
The Long Party
; Barbara Cartland,
We Danced All Night
; Andrew Barrow,
Gossip
; Information provided by Ian Jenkins, Curator of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum; Selfridges Archive;
Daily Express
, 31 May 1920; Reginald Pound,
Selfridge
; Ralph Blumenfeld,
Diaries
; Philip Tilden,
True Remembrances; Bournemouth Daily Echo
, 25 May 1920; Information provided by Ian Stevenson; Violette de Sibour,
Flying Gypsies
; Staff notes, Selfridges Archive; Correspondence of H. G. Selfridge, Selfridges Archive; Arnold Bennett,
Journals
, Vol. II, p. 159; Trinity College Library, Cambridge University; Reginald Pound,
Selfridge
; Charles Savoie, ‘The Mysterious, Super-élite Pilgrim Society’, May 2005, retrieved from the Internet; Anne Pimlott Baker,
The Pilgrims of Great Britain
; Notes from Eric Dunstan, Selfridges Archive; James Gardiner,
Gaby Deslys
; Norman Hartnell,
Silver and Gold
; Joan Kahr,
Edgar Brandt
; Mary Blume,
Côte d’Azur
; Charles Graves,
None But the Rich
; Kate ‘Ma’ Meyrick,
Secrets of the ‘43’
; Selfridges Archive; Family Archives of Simon Wheaton Smith; Notes from Eric Dunstan, Selfridges Archive.

Chapter 12: Making Waves

Alan Jenkins,
The Twenties
; Ronald Blythe,
The Age of Illusion
; Staff notes, Selfridges Archive; Information provided by Ian Stevenson; Information provided by Merton Council;
Kelly’s Directory
, 1925;
Bournemouth Daily Echo
, 26 February 1924;
Time Magazine
, 23 September 1929; Selfridges Archive; Reginald Pound,
Selfridge
; Family Archives of Simon Wheaton Smith; A. H. Williams,
No Name at the Door
; Ronald Blythe,
The Age of Illusion
; Reginald Pound,
Selfridge
; Kate ‘Ma’ Meyrick,
Secrets of the ‘43’
; Gary Chapman,
The Delectable Dollies; The Picturegoer
, April 1921,
courtesy of Exeter University; Elsa Maxwell,
I Married the World
; Janet Aitken Kidd,
The Beaverbrook Girl
; Mary Blume,
Côte d’Azur
; ‘Inventing the French Riviera: The Early Days of Radio Normandy’,
www.ibcstudio.co.uk
; The Diaries of Ralph Blumenfeld; Gordon Honeycombe,
Selfridges.

Chapter 13:
Tout Va

Selfridges Archive; Staff notes, Selfridges Archive; Letter from Elizabeth Arden to Teddy Haslam, April 1926; Reginald Pound,
Selfridge
; Family Archives of Simon Wheaton Smith; (on Suzanne Lenglen)
www.tennisfame.org
; Mary Blume,
Côte d’Azur
; Harry Yoxall,
A Fashion of Life
; Caroline Seebohm,
The Man Who Was Vogue
; Condé Nast Library; Gordon Honeycombe,
Selfridges
; Richard Buckle (ed.),
Self Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1926–1974
; ‘The Riviera Season’,
Vogue
, 22 February 1928, illustrations by Cecil Beaton; Charles Graves,
None but the Rich
; Axel Madsen,
Coco Chanel
; Gary Chapman,
The Delectable Dollies
; Alan Jenkins,
The Rich Rich; Time Magazine
, 11 and 25 April 1927; Maurice Corina,
Fine Silks and Oak Counters
; Selfridges Archives; Ronald Blythe,
The Age of Illusion
; Stella Margetson,
The Long Party
; Andrew Barrow,
Gossip
; Selfridges Archive; Elsa Maxwell,
I Married the World
; Gloria Vanderbilt & Lady Thelma Furness,
Double Exposure
; (on gaming) Author interview with Professor Gerda Reith; (on Maude Loti)
International Herald Tribune,
1925; Charles Graves,
None but the Rich
; Gary Chapman,
The Delectable Dollies
; Mistinguett,
Mistinguett by Mistinguett
; A. H. Williams,
No Name at the Door
; Reginald Pound,
Selfridge
; Kate ‘Ma’ Meyrick,
Secrets of the ‘43’
; ‘The Season at Le Touquet’,
Vogue
, illustrations by Cecil Beaton; Staff notes, Selfridges Archive;
Time Magazine
, 1 August 1927; Gordon Honeycombe,
Selfridges.

Chapter 14: Flights of Fancy

Philip Tilden,
True Remembrances
; Letter to Mr Skinner, Selfridges Archive; Reginald Pound,
Selfridge
; A. H. Williams,
No Name at the Door; Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Woolton
; Staff notes, Selfridges Archive; Charles Graves,
None but the Rich
; Gary Chapman,
The Delectable Dollies
; Roy Moseley & Victor Saville,
Evergreen
; Ronald Blythe,
The Age of Illusion
; Stella Margetson,
The Long Party
; Alan Jenkins,
The Twenties
; Selfridges Archive;
Time Magazine
, 12 March 1928; Arnold Bennett,
Letters to His Nephew
, p. 268;
Business Magazin
e, January 1930;
Time Magazine
, 24 March 1930; Gordon Honeycombe,
Selfridges; Time Magazine
, 24 September 1928; Violette de Sibour,
Flying Gypsies
; Author correspondence with Mary Gardener;
The Scotsman
, 5 November 1930; ‘Callisthenes’, ‘An Aeroplane Which We Sold’,
The Times
, 29 November 1930; Gary Chapman,
The Delectable
Dollies
; ‘Gloria’s Memoirs’,
News of the World
, 31 May 1932;
Time Magazine
, 21 July 1930; (on Ivar Kreuger) Dale L. Flesher,
National Forum
, Autumn 1997, retrieved from the Internet; Letter from H. G. Selfridge to Ralph Blumenfeld, Archives;
Time Magazine
, 25 August 1930; Reginald Pound,
Arnold Bennett
; Daphne Thynne,
The Duchess of Jermyn Street
; Selfridges Archive;
Milwaukee Journal
, 7 September 1932;
Time Magazine
, 14 March 1932 and 17 July 1933; Selfridges Archive.

Chapter 15: Over and Out

Milwaukee Journal
, October 1935;
Daily Tribune Chicago
, 22 October 1935 (cuttings provided by the Wisconsin History Society);
Time Magazine, 4
November 1935; A. H. Williams,
No Name at the Door
; Election Party Guest Lists, Selfridges Archive; (on Sibyl Thorndike) A. H. Williams,
No Name at the Door
; Condé Nast Library; Underwear advertising, Selfridges Archives;
The Passing Show
, 28 September 1935; Gordon Honeycombe,
Selfridge
s; Reginald Pound,
Selfridge
; (on Wallis Simpson) Ronald Blythe,
The Age of Illusion
; (on the sale of the SS
Conqueror
) National Maritime Museum & correspondence, Selfridges Archive; Staff notes, Selfridges Archive; (on Gordon Jr’s flight to Spain)
Time Magazine
, 17 August 1936; H. G. Selfridge letters to Ralph Blumenfeld, Archive; (on Father Christmas)
Business & Finance Magazine
, 20 December 1936; (on ‘Callisthenes’ in USA)
Time Magazine
, 18 October 1937; Coronation Décor Catalogue, Selfridges Archive; H. G. Selfridge letters to Ralph Blumenfeld, Archive; Reginald Pound,
Selfridge
; (on gambling) A. H. Williams,
No Name at the Door
; ‘Television Is Here: You Can’t Shut Your Eyes to It’, Selfridges Archive; (on Holmes) Gordon Honeycombe,
Selfridge
s; Staff notes, Selfridges Archive; (on Gordon Jr.) Reginald Pound,
Selfridge
; Staff notes, Selfridges Archive; (on war stocks) Notes from Nellie Elt, Selfridges Archive; Letters from board of directors, Selfridges Archive; (on sailing to America)
Time Magazine
, 13 November 1939; (on post-retirement luncheon)
Store
, February 1940; (on restructuring the business)
Time Magazine
, 3 February 1941; (on life in retirement) Family Archives of Simon Wheaton Smith; Notes from Mr Robertson, Selfridges Archive; Sotheby & Co. catalogue, 11 August 1941 (‘sale of valuable French and English Books, Property of a Gentleman’, under which he had written H. Gordon Selfridge) provided by Maggs Bros.; Information on ‘Sigsaly’, Selfridges Archive; Obituary,
The Times
, 9 May 1947; (on funeral)
Bournemouth Echo
, 13 May 1947; Last Will & Testament of H. G. Selfridge.

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All books were published in London unless otherwise stated.

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(Allen & Unwin, 1975)

——
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——
Victorian Shopping
(David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972)

Allan, Tony,
Americans in Paris
(Bison Books, Chicago, 1977)

Alsop, Susan Mary,
Lady Sackville: A Biography
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978)

Appel, Joseph,
The Business Biography of John Wanamaker
(Macmillan, New York, 1930)

Arlen, Michael,
The Green Hat
(Collins, 1924)

Artley, Alexandra (ed.),
The Golden Age of Shop Design, 1850–1939
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Baker, Anne Pimlott,
The Pilgrims of Great Britain: A Centennial History
(Profile Books, 2002)

Banner, Lois W.,
American Beauty
(University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1983)

Barrow, Andrew,
Gossip
(Pan, 1978)

Beaton, Cecil,
The Glass of Fashion
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1954)

——
Self-Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1926–74
, ed. Richard Buckle (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979)

Benjamin, Thelma,
London Shops and Shopping
(H. Joseph, 1934)

Bennett, Arnold,
Journals
(Stratford Press, 1933), Vols. II and III, 1922–8

——
Letters of Arnold Bennett
, Vol. II, 1889–1915, ed. James Hepburn (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1968)

——
Letters to his Nephew
, ed. Richard Bennett (William Heinemann, 1935)

Bennett, Richard,
A Picture of the Twenties
(Vista Books, 1971)

Black, Jean F.,
Hyde Park Houses: An Informal History, 1856–1910
(University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1978)

Blume, Mary,
Côte d’Azur: Inventing the French Riviera
(Thames & Hudson, 1992)

Blumenfeld, R. D.,
Diaries, 1887–1914
(Heinemann, 1930)

Blythe, Ronald,
The Age of Illusion: England in the Twenties and Thirties
(Hamish Hamilton, 1963)

Bowlby, Rachel,
Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola
(Methuen, 1985)

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