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.

About the author

Jad Adams is a Research Fellow at the Institute of English, School of Advanced Study, University of London. His many books include Women and the Vote: A World History (2014).

Summary

Chronicles the vibrant and passionate women who wrote for the 1890s journal The Yellow Book.

Product details

• Authors: Jad Adams, Adams Jad
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9781789147896
• ISBN: 978-1-78914-789-6
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Modern / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Biography: writers, History and Archaeology, Biography: philosophy and social sciences