Glamorized mythologized & demonized
- the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. Flappers is in part a biography of that restless generation: starting with its first fashionable acts of rebellion just before the Great War & continuing through to the end of the decade when the Wall Street crash signal led another cataclysmic world change. It focuses on six women who between them exemplified the range & daring of that generation's spirit. Diana Cooper Nancy Cunard Tallulah Bankhead Zelda Fitzgerald Josephine Baker & Tamara de Lempicka were far from typical flappers. Although they danced the Charleston wore fashionable clothes & partied with the rest of their peers they made themselves prominent among the artists icons & heroines of their age. Talented reckless & wilful with personalities that transcended their class & background they re-wrote their destinies in remarkable entertaining & tragic ways. & between them they blazed the trail of the New Woman around the world.