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Drusilla Beyfus
Drusilla Norman Beyfus (born 1927) is a British etiquette writer. She was married to the journalist and critic Milton Shulman Milton Shulman (1 September 1913 – 24 May 2004) was a Canadian author, film and theatre critic who was based in the United Kingdom from 1943. Early life Shulman was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of a successful shopkeeper. His parents wer .... Publications (selected) *1968: ''The English Marriage: what it is like to be married today'' *1969: ''Lady Behave: a guide to modern manners for the 1970s'' (with Anne Edwards) *1985: ''The Bride's Book'' *1992: ''Courtship - The Done Thing: modern manners in miniature'' *1992: ''Modern Manners: the essential guide to living in the '90s'' *1992: ''Parties - The Done Thing: modern manners in miniature'' *1993: ''Business: the Done Thing'' *1993: ''Sex: the Done Thing'' *1994: ''Modern Manners: the complete guide to contemporary etiquette'' References 1927 births Living people People from Hampste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Shulman
Milton Shulman (1 September 1913 – 24 May 2004) was a Canadian author, film and theatre critic who was based in the United Kingdom from 1943. Early life Shulman was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of a successful shopkeeper. His parents were born in Ukraine and were driven out of the Russian Empire by poverty and anti-Jewish pogroms. Shulman's father was only 26 when he died of the flu epidemic but had already acquired three millinery shops as well as a men's haberdashery. Shulman was educated at Harbord Collegiate, then spent four years at the University of Toronto. Although he wished to pursue a writing career, he was articled to a law firm, attending lectures at Osgoode Hall Law School for a further three years before being called to the Ontario bar just before World War II broke out in 1939. War service After the phoney war period, Shulman signed up for the Canadian army, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Canadian Armoured Corps and posted to England in Jun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Shulman
Jason Shulman is a British sculptor and photographer who lives and works in London. Early life His father, the drama critic Milton Shulman, and mother, journalist Drusilla Beyfus, were married in 1956. They had three children: Alexandra, Nicola, and Jason. While Jason was growing up, the Shulman family lived in Belgravia. He returned to Haggerston and attended school. Career Shulman worked as a graphic designer for ''The Sunday Telegraph'' and an art director for ''Harpers & Queen'' and Harvey Nichols' magazines. Two years after quitting his job as an Art Director, Shulman had his first gallery show in 2006 at the Madder Rose gallery near London's Old Street. Ten of the pieces concerned the painkiller Solpadeine, and one piece in particular was made using his father's ashes in stratified, magnetised, colour-coded layers. Regarding the pills, Shulman remarked, "They're the ones that just about give you the strength to get out of the bath in the morning. I wanted to say thank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Shulman
Alexandra Shulman (born 13 November 1957) is a British journalist. She is a former Editor-in-Chief of British ''Vogue'', and became the longest serving Editor in the history of the publication. After assuming the role in 1992, she presided over a circulation increase to 200,000. Shulman is reputedly one of the country's most oft-quoted voices on fashion trends. In addition to her work with ''Vogue'', Shulman has written columns for ''The Daily Telegraph'' and the ''Daily Mail'', as well as a novel. Early life Alexandra Shulman was born in 1957, the daughter of the critic Milton Shulman and the writer Drusilla Beyfus, who herself was a contributor to ''Vogue'', among other publications. Her parents had two additional children, Nicola and Jason. Her sister Nicola married Constantine Phipps (later, the 5th Marquess of Normanby) in 1990 and has written a biography of Tudor poet Sir Thomas Wyatt. Her brother Jason was formerly an art director for glossy magazines but is now a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Shulman
Nicola Shulman Phipps Marchioness of Normanby (born 1960), is a British biographer, former model, and aristocrat. After her marriage in 1990 she has been known as Nicola Phipps, Marchioness of Normanby. Early life Nicola Shulman was born into a Jewish family, the daughter of Milton Shulman, the former theatre reviewer for the ''London Evening Standard'', and Drusilla Beyfus, an author of etiquette books. Her brother, Jason Shulman, is an artist, while her sister, Alexandra Shulman, is the former editor in chief of ''British Vogue''. Shulman graduated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Career Lady Normanby started her career as a model. She later worked for ''Harpers & Queen''. She is the author of two biographies. Her second book, ''Graven with Diamonds'', was reviewed in ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Times'', ''The Sunday Times'', '' and The Independent''. Personal life Shulman has been married twice. Her first husband was novelist Edward St Aubyn. Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 Births
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album '' Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by Slipk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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People From Hampstead
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etiquette Writers
Etiquette () is the set of norms of personal behaviour in politeness, polite society, usually occurring in the form of an ethical code of the expected and accepted social behavior, social behaviours that accord with the convention (norm), conventions and norm (sociology), norms observed and practised by a society, a social class, or a Group (sociology), social group. In modern English usage, the French word ' (label and tag) dates from the year 1750. History In the third millennium BCE, the Ancient Egyptian vizier Ptahhotep wrote ''The Maxims of Ptahhotep'' (2375–2350 BC), a didactic book of precepts extolling civil virtues, such as truthfulness, self-control, and kindness towards other people. Recurrent thematic motifs in the maxims include learning by listening to other people, being mindful of the imperfection of human knowledge, and that avoiding open conflict, whenever possible, should not be considered weakness. That the pursuit of justice should be foremost, yet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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