The Girls of Radcliff Hall

The story is not included in the Berners anthology Collected Tales and Fantasies, but it was reprinted, with some additional explanatory material, in 2000 thanks to the efforts of Dorothy Lygon.

", are: Miss Carfax (this choice of name was presumably related to Sibyl Colefax, with whom Berners was acquainted): Lord Berners; Miss MacRogers: Jimmy Foster; Olive Mason: Oliver Messel; Cecily: Cecil Beaton; Daisy: David Herbert; Lizzie: Peter Watson; Millie: Robert Heber-Percy; Yoshiwara: Pavel Tchelitchew; Goussie: Christian Bérard; Helene de Troy: Jack Wilson; Vivian Dorrick: Doris Castlerosse; May: Robin Thomas (USA).

By the Bishop of Brixton WHEN first my friend and erstwhile parishioner Adela Quebec invited me to write an introduction to her little book, The Girls of Radcliff Hall, I must admit that I was filled with diffidence.

I felt that, for a member of the Church of England, possessing no pretensions whatever to literary taste and above all handicapped by a complete ignorance of the subject of which the book treats, it would be a task that lay entirely outside my province.

Miss Quebec's little volume exhales so fragrant an atmosphere of charm and innocence that, after reading it, I felt as though I had been walking in a garden full of lilies and roses.