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Author Bingham, Emily.

Title Irrepressible : the Jazz Age life of Henrietta Bingham / Emily Bingham.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 BINGHAM    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B BINGHAM, HENRIETTA    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B BINGHAM    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-BINGHAM BIN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 BINGHAM, HEN    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B BINGHAM, H.    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  B BINGHAM    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xii, 369 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-345) and index.
Contents Prologue: Herein Lieth Hid a Creature -- 1. Coquetting -- 2. Pretty Boxes -- 3. Detriment to Community -- 4. An American Girl of Twenty-One -- 5. Free Associations -- 6. O Let's Get Married -- 7. Effects of Henrietta -- 8. An' I Wish i Was Happy Again -- 9. Jug Band Ordered -- 10. A Red Damask Suite -- 11. Huntin -- 12. Speed Six -- 13. Miss America -- 14. A Joyous and Satisfying Life -- 15. Our House with Our Horses -- 16. My Nerves Are Bad Tonight -- 17. The Not At All Solved Problems of Henrietta -- Postscript: Extant -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary "Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta 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 shameful, seductive and brilliant, and often terribly troubled. In New York, Louisville, and London she drove men and women wild with desire, and her youth blazed with sex. But her lesbian love affairs made her the subject of derision and drove a doctor to try to cure her. After the speed and pleasure of her youth, the toxicity of judgment coupled with her own anxieties led to years of addiction and breakdowns,"--Novelist.
Subject Bingham, Henrietta Worth, 1901-1968.
Bisexual women -- United States -- Biography.
Bingham family.
Upper class women -- United States -- Biography.
Socialites -- United States -- Biography.
Lesbians -- United States -- Biography.
Women analysands -- United States -- Biography.
Women alcoholics -- United States -- Biography.
Louisville Region (Ky.) -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Title Jazz Age life of Henrietta Bingham
ISBN 9780809094646 (hardcover)
0809094649 (hardcover)
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