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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Using previously unpublished memoirs and interviews, Queens of Bohemia creates a soundscape of voices that gives the reader a taste of their world, so exotic and yet often wracked with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.
Contents
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Act I: Queendom Come
1 Fitzrovian Femmes
2 Femmes Fatales
3 Sladies
4 Viva la Vie Bohème
5 Let's Blitz Bohemia
6 The Lost Girls
7 Café Society
Act II: Bohemia Redux
8 Ripping Yarns
9 The Gluepot Gang
10 Sisterhood of Sin
11 The Coach & Divorces
12 Pond Life
13 Acid Queens
14 Lost Horizon
Act III: Death Becomes Thee
15 The Monster Club
16 Get Smart
17 Dangerous Muse
18 Queen of Heaven
19 From Beijing to Bohemia
20 Absolute Hell
21 Quashed Queens
22 Queen and Country
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Credits
Biography of Contributors
Notes
Bibliography
