Born in the first decade of the 20 th century, the Bright Young People Taylor describes were old enough to remember the Great War but too young to have been part of it. Taylor concentrates on a collection of upper class young people, linked directly to the “uppermost layers of the interwar British establishment” (p.34). Although there was some overlap between that group and what D.J.Taylor terms Britain’s Bright Young People, his book is about a different, less intellectual, far more frivolous crowd. What came to my mind initially in thinking about this period in Britain was the Bloomsbury group. “Lost generation” is not a term one usually associates with London in the same decade.
Tales of a lost generation in the 1920s typically center on New York or Paris. Taylor, Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London’s Jazz Age
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