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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.
Open Library Cover
Location Call No. Status
 Stack 7  92 B6135 B    IN LIBRARY
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 -- Coquetting -- Pretty boxes -- Detriment to community -- An American girl of twenty-one -- Free associations -- O let's get married -- Effects of Henrietta -- An' I wish I was happy again -- Jug band ordered -- A red damask suite -- Huntin -- Speed six -- Miss America -- A joyous and satisfying life -- Our house with our horses -- My nerves are bad tonight -- The not at all solved problems of Henrietta -- Postscript: Extant.
Subject Bingham, Henrietta Worth, 1901-1968.
Upper class women -- United States -- Biography.
Socialites -- United States -- Biography.
Bisexual women -- United States -- Biography.
Lesbians -- United States -- Biography.
Women analysands -- United States -- Biography.
Women alcoholics -- United States -- Biography.
Added Title Jazz Age life of Henrietta Bingham
ISBN 9780809094646 (hardcover)
0809094649 (hardcover)
9780374713805 (e-book)