Judith Mackrell’s “Flappers” is a juicy, energetic exploration of six dazzling iconoclasts who all flared to fame in the Roaring ‘20s. Unlike recent books such as Simon Winchester’s “The Professor and ...
The six subjects of Judith Mackrell’s new group biography, Flappers, were notorious celebrities in the 1920s, though mostly forgotten today, which is as good a reason as any to pick up the book and ...
They danced, they drank smuggled booze, and they rewrote the rules of womanhood. The flappers of the Roaring Twenties weren’t just following a fashion trend — they were the OG rule-breakers. With ...
A look ahead at what the denizens of 'Downton Abbey' will face when the new season enters the tumultuous Roaring Twenties. No more corsets! By Elizabeth Snead Maggie Smith Elizabeth McGovern Downton ...
"My candle burns at both ends/ It will not last the night/ But ah my foes, and oh my friends/ It gives a lovely light", wrote Edna St Vincent Millay in 1920, in a poem that Mackrell acknowledges was ...
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