Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives

The never-before-told story of the extraordinary women behind a trailblazing British magazine.

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, and drawing 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 favored 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.

Author: Jad Adams
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 12/20/2023
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.7lbs
Size: 9.51h x 6.44w x 1.28d
ISBN: 9781789147896
Language: English