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Coffield Darren - Queens Of Bohemia And Other Miss - Fits - Hardcover
Coffield Darren - Queens Of Bohemia And Other Miss - Fits - Hardcover
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Description: Our story begins in 1920s London at a time when women's rights were surging after the long battle for suffrage and nightclubs emerged as spaces where single women could socialise unchaperoned. This was the age of the dance craze and the gender - bending Flapper who inspired the creation of the Gargoyle club a nocturnal hunting ground for Femmes Fatales. Meanwhile London's Bohemia was ruled by the Queen of Clubs Kate Meyrick; the taboo - breaking Tiger Woman Betty May; the original Chelsea Girl Viva King; the artist Nina Hamnett; the Euston Road Venus Sonia Orwell; and Isabel Rawsthorne artist spy pornographer model and muse to name but a few. Using previously unpublished memoirs and interviews Queens of Bohemia creates a soundscape of voices that gives the reader a taste of their world so exotic and yet often wracked with despair. It offers a unique insight into a generation of women for whom ideals of duty and self - sacrifice had been debunked by the horrors of war and whose morality resided in being true to one's self as they took their struggle for freedom into the wider world and learned to value their individuality along the way.
Title: Queens Of Bohemia And Other Miss - Fits
Author(s): Coffield Darren
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Barcode: 9781803995748
Pages: 22 Illustrations, Black And White
Publication Date: 3/18/2025
Category: Gender Studies: Women
Description: Our story begins in 1920s London at a time when women's rights were surging after the long battle for suffrage and nightclubs emerged as spaces where single women could socialise unchaperoned. This was the age of the dance craze and the gender - bending Flapper who inspired the creation of the Gargoyle club a nocturnal hunting ground for Femmes Fatales. Meanwhile London's Bohemia was ruled by the Queen of Clubs Kate Meyrick; the taboo - breaking Tiger Woman Betty May; the original Chelsea Girl Viva King; the artist Nina Hamnett; the Euston Road Venus Sonia Orwell; and Isabel Rawsthorne artist spy pornographer model and muse to name but a few. Using previously unpublished memoirs and interviews Queens of Bohemia creates a soundscape of voices that gives the reader a taste of their world so exotic and yet often wracked with despair. It offers a unique insight into a generation of women for whom ideals of duty and self - sacrifice had been debunked by the horrors of war and whose morality resided in being true to one's self as they took their struggle for freedom into the wider world and learned to value their individuality along the way.
Title: Queens Of Bohemia And Other Miss - Fits
Author(s): Coffield Darren
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Barcode: 9781803995748
Pages: 22 Illustrations, Black And White
Publication Date: 3/18/2025
Category: Gender Studies: Women
