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Midnight Rose: a life of Maud Allan

Wendy Buonaventura

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Description:MIDNIGHT ROSE is based on the life of Edwardian dancer Maud Allan, who performed as the Bible’s most notorious temptress and paid the price for embodying men’s worst nightmares about women. Allan’s 'Vision of Salome' made her a celebrity, though the dance profession in those days was considered only a step above prostitution. In 1918 a newspaper article hinted that she was a lesbian and Allan sued for libel. The trial that followed threw a searchlight on the social hypocrisies and sexual ignorance of the age, as self-appointed guardians of public morality lined up to attack the one of the most famous women of her day.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Midnight Rose: a life of Maud Allan. To get started finding Midnight Rose: a life of Maud Allan, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 262

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Cinnabar Books

Release: 2009

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Description: MIDNIGHT ROSE is based on the life of Edwardian dancer Maud Allan, who performed as the Bible’s most notorious temptress and paid the price for embodying men’s worst nightmares about women. Allan’s 'Vision of Salome' made her a celebrity, though the dance profession in those days was considered only a step above prostitution. In 1918 a newspaper article hinted that she was a lesbian and Allan sued for libel. The trial that followed threw a searchlight on the social hypocrisies and sexual ignorance of the age, as self-appointed guardians of public morality lined up to attack the one of the most famous women of her day.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Midnight Rose: a life of Maud Allan. To get started finding Midnight Rose: a life of Maud Allan, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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