Decadent Women : Yellow Book Lives

Adams, Jad

Reaktion Books（2023/10発売）

Reaktion Books（2023/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 392 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781789147896
• DDC分類 305.4094109034

Full Description

During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accommodation, and financial and sexual freedom. Decadent Women is an account of some of these women who wrote for the innovative art and literary journal The Yellow Book.
For the first time, based on original research, Jad Adams describes the lives and work of these vibrant and passionate women, from well-connected and fashionable aristocrats to the desperately poor. He narrates the challenges they faced in a literary marketplace, and within a society that overwhelmingly favoured men, showing how they were pioneers of a new style, living lives of lurid adventure and romance, as well as experiencing poverty, squalor, disease and unwanted pregnancy.

Contents

Part One: Fin de Siecle

1 The Launch
2 Gabriela's Deceptions
3 The Forerunner
4 Yellow Book Types
5 'Hast thou slain the Yallerbock?'
6 Office Wars
7 A Paris Mystery
8 Mabel's Urge for Fame
9 Netta Syrett and the Flat of Girls
10 Menie Muriel Dowie's Celebrity
11 Evelyn Sharp and the Last Volume

Part Two: Commence de Siecle

12 Family Battles
13 Charlotte Mew: Love Rebuffed
14 Ella D'Arcy: 'Not dead yet'
15 Netta Syrett's Drama Curtailed
16 Mabel's War
17 Unresting Dragonfly
18 George Egerton: 'This life is dry rot'
19 Suffragette Warrior
20 The Ship with Black Sails

Appendix: List of All Women Writers for the Yellow Book

References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index