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Henrietta Bingham (January 3, 1901 – June 17, 1968) was a wealthy American journalist, newspaper executive and horse breeder. When she was twelve, she was present when her mother was killed in a road accident which traumatized the whole family.
2. Juli 2015 · Such was the luck of Emily Bingham when she set to exhuming the brittle bones of her Great-aunt Henrietta, whose ghost threaded around the outskirts of the author’s privileged Kentucky...
5. Juni 2015 · Tall, dark-haired and violet-eyed, with a magnetic presence and seductive voice, Henrietta Worth Bingham bewitched scores of men and women (mostly women) in the 1920s and ’30s in London; New...
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31. Juli 2015 · The irrepressible Henrietta Bingham — uncovering the life of a Jazz Age misfit. Author Emily Bingham pieces together the story of her great-aunt Henrietta, a beguiling figure who mixed with...
Henrietta met the Bloomsbury authors, the Freudians, tennis stars, actors and most of the major names of the Jazz Age. But the point of this biography is not to glamorize, but to analyze what Henrietta’s life meant, a life that started with promise and ended in breakdown.
For author Emily Bingham, Henrietta was an eccentric great-aunt who passed away when Emily was three, little mentioned by surviving family until a passing reference from Emily’s grandmother describing Henrietta as an “invert” unintentionally spurred a years-long research project.
“Irrepressible is the absorbing, deeply moving, and brilliantly researched story of an intoxicating woman whose personal life was as turbulent as the times she lived in: Henrietta Bingham dazzles the reader as she dazzled the artists, writers, and musicians around her in the Jazz Age and beyond.” – Frances Osborne, author of The Bolter
