The following is a list of related books for lecture:
The Man Who Was Helen Cathcart |
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Beaton in the Sixties (ed) (2003) Hardback (UK) 2003
Hardback (US) 2004
Paperback (UK) 2004
Cecil Beaton’s unexpurgated diaries between 1965 and 1969 – when
as in the previous volume – he freely dissects his friends and
adversaries.
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The Unexpurgated Beaton (ed) (2002) Hardback (UK) 2002
Paperback (UK) 2002
Hardback (US) 2003
Paperback (US) 2005
Cecil Beaton’s unexpurgated diaries from 1970 until his death in
1980, in which the re-touching is removed and we see what he really
thought about his friends and adversaries. No one is spared, not
even himself.
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Ashcombe (1999) Paperback (UK) 1999
Introduced by Hugo Vickers.
Cecil Beaton's touching story of the 15 years he spent at Ashcombe, the magical house in the valley near Shaftesbury - now the home of Madonna.
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Cecil Beaton (1985) Hardback (UK) 1985
Paperback (UK) 1986
Hardback (US) 1986
Paperback (US) 1987
Paperback (UK) 1993
Paperback (UK) 2002
Paperback (UK) 2003
A number one best seller in England in the summer of 1985, in print since that time.
Listed in 'Bear in Mind' - The New York Times Book Review - 22 & 29 June 1986
Listed in 'New & Noteworthy' - The New York Times Book Review - 7 June 1987
The authorised biography of Cecil Beaton, photographer, designer, and arbiter of taste, written at his request before he died, and with unrestricted access to all his papers, and the help of his friends from all walks of life.

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