Where All Good Flappers Go by Various

‘I believe in the flapper as an artist in her particular field, the art of being – being young, being lovely’ – Zelda Fitzgerald

Vivacious, charming, irreverent, the flapper is a girl who knows how to have a roaring good time. In this collection of short stories, she’s a partygoer, a socialite, a student, a shopgirl, and an acrobat. She bobs her hair, shortens her skirt, searches for a husband and scandalises her mother. She’s a glittering object of delight, and a woman embracing a newfound independence. Bringing together stories from widely adored writers and newly discovered gems, principally sourced from the magazines of the period, this collection is a celebration of the outrageous charm of an iconic figure of the Jazz Age. Featuring works from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, Dana Ames, Rudolph Fisher, John Watts, Dorothy Parker, Katherine Bush, Gertrude Schalk, Dawn Powell, Vina Delmar, Guy Gilpatric, Anita Loos and Zora Neale Hurston.

About the Author: David M. Earle is a Professor of Modernism and Print Culture at the University of West Florida. He publishes regularly on the history of magazines and popular publishing. His books include All Man! (Kent State University Press), a study of gender in 1950s men’s magazines, and Re-Covering Modernism (Routledge 2009), on the popular forms of modernist literature. He has also edited the “Oxford Online Bibliography of Popular Magazines of the Early 20th Century” (2021).

29 Jun 2023
 

Where All Good Flappers Go: Essential Stories of the Jazz Age by Various ISBN 9781782279303