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Filling in the Bloomsbury Puzzle: Biographer Anne Chisolm praises Irrepressible
“The Binghams appear like Tennessee Williams characters, their lives ravaged by alcohol, secrets, and sudden death.”
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Dallas Morning News praises Irrepressible
“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 […]
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The Daily Beast on Henrietta, Secret Lothario of the Jazz Age
Had Fitzgerald met Henrietta Bingham “she would have inspired a Jazz Age anti-heroine more beguiling than Daisy Buchanan and Nicole Diver combined.”
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Irrepressible excerpt published in New York Times Live
The 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…
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A Bloomsbury Tea (2010)
“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 […]
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