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In her exuberant new work, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers-Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St.Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber- whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s.
These literary heroines did what they wanted and said what they thought, living wholly in the moment. They kicked open the door for twentieth-century women writers and set a new model for every woman trying to juggle the serious issues of economic independence, political power, and sexual freedom. Here are the social and literary triumphs and inevitably the penances paid: crumbled love affairs, abortions, depression, lost beauty, nervous breakdowns, and finally, overdoses and even madness.
A vibrant mixture of literary scholarship, social history, and scandal, Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin is a rich evocation of a period that will forever intrigue and captivate us.
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Jeff Ullrich
reviewed Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties on February 06, 2021
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
Reading Challenge Week 5: Set in the 1920s
I was very eager to start this as I'm just absolutely loving Charlotte Gordon's incredible dual biography of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley (Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley).
Here is another book about extraordinary women: Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber. I'm sad to report it just doesn't even compare with Gordon's thorough and riveting work. Rather, it feels more like a dull, random, somewhat gossipy recitation of events in the lives of these women. The connection between the four women feels tenuous to me. Yes, they're all famous Jazz Age female writers, but so what? She never really sold their stories as a larger tapestry with common meaning. As such the transitions between narratives was always a bit jarring.
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