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Irrepressible - The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham (Paperback)
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Irrepressible - The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham (Paperback)
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Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the
American South, Henrietta Bingham 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 shameless, seductive and brilliant, endearing and often
terribly troubled. In New York, Louisville, and London, she drove
both men and women wild with desire, and her youth blazed with sex.
But her love affairs with women made her the subject of derision
and caused a doctor to try to cure her queerness. After the speed
and pleasure of her early decades, the toxicity of judgment from
others, coupled with her own anxieties, resulted in years of
addiction and breakdowns. And perhaps most painfully, she became a
E source of embarrassment for her family - she was labelled "a
three-dollar bill." But forebears can become fairy-tale E figures,
especially when they defy tradition and are spoken of only in
whispers. For the biographer and historian Emily Bingham, the
secret of who her great-aunt was, and just why her story was
concealed for so long, led to irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of
Henrietta Bingham. Henrietta rode the cultural cusp as a muse to
the Bloomsbury Group, the daughter of the ambassador to the United
Kingdom during the rise of Nazism, the seductress of royalty and
athletic champions, and a pre-Stonewall figure who never buckled to
convention. Henrietta's audacious physicality made her
unforgettable in her own time, and her ecstatic and harrowing life
serves as an astonishing reminder of the stories that lie buried in
our own families.
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