{"product_id":"9780374536190-secondhand-irrepressible-the-jazz-age-life-of-henrietta-bingham","title":"Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham","description":"Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the  American South, Henrietta Bingham 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  shameless, seductive and brilliant, endearing and often terribly  troubled. In New York, Louisville, and London, she drove both men and  women wild with desire, and her youth blazed with sex. But her love  affairs with women made her the subject of derision and caused a doctor  to try to cure her queerness. After the speed and pleasure of her early  decades, the toxicity of judgment from others, coupled with her own  anxieties, resulted in years of addiction and breakdowns. And perhaps  most painfully, she became a source of embarrassment for her family--she  was labeled \"a three-dollar bill.\" But forebears can become fairy-tale  figures, especially when they defy tradition and are spoken of only in  whispers. For the biographer and historian Emily Bingham, the secret of  who her great-aunt was, and just why her story was concealed for so  long, led to Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham.\n\nHenrietta  rode the cultural cusp as a muse to the Bloomsbury Group, the daughter  of the ambassador to the United Kingdom during the rise of Nazism, the  seductress of royalty and athletic champions, and a pre-Stonewall figure  who never buckled to convention. Henrietta's audacious physicality made  her unforgettable in her own time, and her ecstatic and harrowing life  serves as an astonishing reminder of the stories that lie buried in our own  families.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49072030220507,"sku":"9780374536190-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/dc94a211-34a1-40a2-831d-3fe56839f69b.jpg?v=1786018311","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780374536190-secondhand-irrepressible-the-jazz-age-life-of-henrietta-bingham","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}