Bibliograph

Irrepressible, the Jazz Age life of Henrietta Bingham, Emily Bingham

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Irrepressible, the Jazz Age life of Henrietta Bingham, Emily Bingham

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Irrepressible

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

889165154

Responsibility statement

Emily Bingham

Sub title

the Jazz Age life of Henrietta Bingham

Summary

"Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead, she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character: intoxicating and intoxicated, selfish and shameful, seductive and brilliant, and often terribly troubled. In New York, Louisville, and London she drove men and women wild with desire, and her youth blazed with sex. But her lesbian love affairs made her the subject of derision and drove a doctor to try to cure her. After the speed and pleasure of her youth, the toxicity of judgment coupled with her own anxieties led to years of addiction and breakdowns,"--Novelist

Table Of Contents

Prologue: Herein lieth hid a creature -- Coquetting -- Pretty boxes -- Detriment to community -- An American girl of twenty-one -- Free associations -- O let's get married -- Effects of Henrietta -- An' I wish I was happy again -- Jug band ordered -- A red damask suite -- Hunting -- Speed six -- Miss America -- A joyous and satisfying life -- Our house with our horses -- My nerves are bad tonight -- The not at all solved problems of Henrietta -- Postscript: Extant

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Jazz Age life of Henrietta Bingham

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