num_pages: 256
description: 'A fascinating insight into the life of a remarkable woman' - BOOKS BY MAIL Joe Carstairs was renowned in the 1920s as an 'invert' who smoked cheroots and dressed as a man, as an heiress to the Standard Oil fortune and as the world's fastest female speedboat racer. In 1934, she bought an island in the West Indies and created her own kingdom. She exercised absolute power over a colony of five hundred black Bahamians, demanding obedience and moral virtue while herself continuing to live as she pleased. She entertained actresses, duchesses and priests, but reserved her greatest love for her boats, her cars and the enigmatic Lord Tod Wadley. When Carstairs died in 1993, aged 93, she was all but forgotten.
language: English
title: The Queen Of Whale Cay
titlecomplete: The Queen Of Whale Cay (CH)
genres: Biography, History, Historical, Lesbian, Womens, Queer, Nonfiction, Feminism, Biography Memoir, LGBT
ratings_count: 643
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Somerset Maugham Award, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Charnwood