Queens of Bohemia: And Other Miss-Fits
Darren Coffield, "Queens of Bohemia: And Other Miss-Fits"
English | ISBN: 1803995742 | 2025 | 352 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
English | ISBN: 1803995742 | 2025 | 352 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
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.
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