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1803995742 epub Our story begins in 1920s London, at a time when womens rights were surging after the long battle for suffrage and nightclubs emerged as spaces where single women could socialise unchaperoned. This was the age of the dance craze and the gender-bending Flapper, who inspired the creation of the Gargoyle club, a nocturnal hunting ground for Femmes Fatales. Meanwhile, Londons Bohemia was ruled by the Queen of Clubs, Kate Meyrick the taboo-breaking Tiger Woman, Betty May the original Chelsea Girl, Viva King the artist, Nina Hamnett the Euston Road Venus, Sonia Orwell and Isabel Rawsthorne, artist, spy, pornographer, model and muse to name but a few. Read more