Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge (39 page)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

All books were published in London unless otherwise stated.

Adburgham, Alison,
Liberty’s: A Biography of a Shop
(Allen & Unwin, 1975)

——
Shops and Shopping, 1880–1914
(Allen & Unwin, 1964)

——
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
(Whitney Library of Design, New York, 1976)

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)