Look Lovely, Be Lovely.

Cartland (Barbara)

Look Lovely, Be Lovely.

Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. 224, crown 8vo, original blue boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket with a photograph of the author's daughter (see below) by Lord Snowdon, price-clipped, and slightly chipped and rubbed at extremities, very good

Publication Details: Herbert Jenkins, 1958

Notes: After its manner, a thoroughgoing treatise, framed by an emphasis on internal loveliness ('Your Inner Radiance' is the first chapter, whilst the book concludes with 'How to Be Beautiful Through Faith') but with plenty of skin-deep consideration between, which provide a number of striking passages: in her consideration of hairstyles, for example, in 'The Crown of Glory', she forthrightly proclaims short hair to be an outgrowth of the 'desire for the nebulous benefits of sex equality', which as a gesture in the fight for Suffrage only made participants 'even more unfeminine than they intended to...moreAfter its manner, a thoroughgoing treatise, framed by an emphasis on internal loveliness ('Your Inner Radiance' is the first chapter, whilst the book concludes with 'How to Be Beautiful Through Faith') but with plenty of skin-deep consideration between, which provide a number of striking passages: in her consideration of hairstyles, for example, in 'The Crown of Glory', she forthrightly proclaims short hair to be an outgrowth of the 'desire for the nebulous benefits of sex equality', which as a gesture in the fight for Suffrage only made participants 'even more unfeminine than they intended to be - considering 'the bob, the shingle and the Eton crop [...] the very nadir of deliberate destruction to femininity', wrought both by wartime practicalities but also 'post-war neuroses'.The author's ideal of beauty, as portrayed on the dustjacket, is naturally enough her own daughter, Raine - née McCorquodale, and at this point Viscountess Lewisham. She subsequently married Earl Spencer, father of Lady Diana Spencer, whose dislike of her stepmother precipitated the nickname 'Acid Raine'. HIDE