Title: Irrepressible
Description: "Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead, she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character: intoxicating and intoxicated, selfish and shameful, seductive and brilliant, and often terribly troubled. In New York, Louisville, and London she drove men and women wild with desire, and her youth blazed with sex. But her lesbian love affairs made her the subject of derision and drove a doctor to try to cure her. After the speed and pleasure of her youth, the toxicity of judgment coupled with her own anxieties led to years of addiction and breakdowns,"--Novelist.
Subjects: Women alcoholics, Lesbians, Upper class women, Socialites, Bisexual women, Women analysands, Biography, Bisexuals, Women, united states, biography, Upper class, Lesbians, biography, Alcoholics, biography, Kentucky, biography, LGBTQ biography and memoir, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, New York Times reviewed
Places: United States, Louisville (Ky.)
People: Henrietta Worth Bingham (1901-1968), Bingham family