LOST GIRLS

In the glorious, boozy party that followed World War I, a new being burst defiantly onto the world stage: the flapper. Young, impetu ous, and flirtatious, she was an alluring, controversial figure, celebrated in movies, fiction, plays, and the pages of fashion maga zines. But, as Linda Simon argues, the flapper didnt appear out of nowhere. Lost Girls gives us a spirited history with a fresh loo k at the reality of young womens experiences in America and Britain from the 1890s to the 1920sthe era when the modern girl emer ged.Lost Girl...[Read more]