
Book Talk at Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art Forum, Saturday January 24, 2pm
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ReadFor you and all your friends who love to listen, Henrietta as narrated by Christina Delaine is perfection. Add a little Jelly Roll or Ma Rainey and you’ll be totally set up.
Read“Emily Bingham’s painstaking reconstruction of Henrietta’s story shows that she was a pioneer of sorts—a poignant case of a life unspooled before the world was ready for her odd grace.”
ReadLiesl Schillinger on Henrietta Bingham and her wildly mesmerizing world.
Read“Against the disapproving silence of her family, Bingham sets a bouquet of lovers’ odes…”
ReadEvery family has its secrets—a recipe or fishing spot, perhaps. But for the storied Bingham family, of Louisville, Kentucky, the secrets could fill volumes…
Read“The Binghams appear like Tennessee Williams characters, their lives ravaged by alcohol, secrets, and sudden death.”
Read“With a revolving celebrity cast, Irrepressible takes place against a tapestry of the 20th century from 1901 to 1968. We invade the privacy of a glamorous, illustrious clan with enough tragedy, turmoil and feuding for a prime-time TV series. And though Henrietta never genuflected to convention, we feel the cold, numbing fear of discovery in […]
ReadHad Fitzgerald met Henrietta Bingham “she would have inspired a Jazz Age anti-heroine more beguiling than Daisy Buchanan and Nicole Diver combined.”
ReadThe southern belle who took London by storm 100 years ago, Henrietta Bingham grappled with issues — from sexuality to personal agency — as relevant to young women today as they were nearly a century ago…
Read“A Bloomsbury Tea: Connecting Smith, Sexuality, Class and Bloomsbury.” Historian Emily Bingham will discuss the cultural, intellectual, and sexual intersections between Henrietta Bingham (who came to Smith in 1920), her English professor, Mina Kirstein Curtiss (Smith 1918), and members of the Bloomsbury Group during the 1920s. The presentation will be followed by a discussion led […]
ReadLee Wiley here sings the hit from Cole Porter’s 1930 Musical, The New Yorkers, starring Henrietta’s lover, Hope Williams as a New York socialite in love with a bootlegger. Hope flew away with Henrietta to her Wyoming ranch in the summer of 1932.
ListenHenrietta patronized many of the famous jug bands of Louisville, but she must have particularly admired Buford Threlkeld, also known as “Whistler.” Seen here on the guitar, he was known for playing the nose whistle and performed a private all-night set for Henrietta and John Houseman in 1925. A rare video captures Whistler’s Jug Band […]
ListenRainey was the first black woman to record a blues record and sang openly about her bisexuality. The jug adds a Louisville touch to this recording.
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