Decadent Women

Yellow Book Lives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-10-01
Mått156 x 234 x 40 mm
Vikt776 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor392
FörlagReaktion Books
ISBN9781789147896

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Part One: Fin de Siecle1 The Launch2Gabriela's Deceptions 3The Forerunner4Yellow Book Types5'Hast thou slain the Yallerbock?'6Office Wars7A Paris Mystery8Mabel's Urge for Fame9Netta Syrett and the Flat of Girls10Menie Muriel Dowie's Celebrity11Evelyn Sharp and the Last VolumePart Two: Commence de Siecle 12Family Battles 13Charlotte Mew: Love Rebuffed14Ella D'Arcy: 'Not dead yet'15Netta Syrett's Drama Curtailed16Mabel's War17Unresting Dragonfly18George Egerton: 'This life is dry rot'19Suffragette Warrior 20The Ship with Black Sails Appendix: List of All Women Writers for the Yellow BookReferencesSelect BibliographyAcknowledgementsPhoto AcknowledgementsIndex

In Decadent Women, Jad Adams . . . traces the intersecting paths of the female writers, artists and sub-editors who contributed to the notorious Yellow Book, the most beautiful magazine of the 1890s . . . he has been painstaking in his research, making use of diaries, letters and contemporary reminiscences. He is a good storyteller and there are many vivid anecdotes here, which will interest the general reader as well as devotees of the period.