Join us on Thursday February 8th at 7:30pm as we welcome Jad Adams back to Kirkdale Bookshop to talk about his latest book: DECADENT WOMEN, YELLOW BOOK LIVES – the never-before-told story of the extraordinary women behind a trailblazing British magazine.

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During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accommodation, and financial and sexual freedom. Decadent Women is an account of some of these women who wrote for the innovative art and literary journal The Yellow Book . For the first time, and drawing on original research, Jad Adams describes the lives and work of these vibrant and passionate women, from well-connected and fashionable aristocrats to the desperately poor. He narrates the challenges they faced in a literary marketplace, and within a society that overwhelmingly favoured men, showing how they were pioneers of a new style, living lives of lurid adventure and romance, as well as experiencing poverty, squalor, disease, and unwanted pregnancy.

Jad is a longtime friend of the shop and has done events with us in the past. As well as being an historian and author, he is also an independent television producer. Jad’s previous work has specialised in radical characters from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and ‘the decadence’ of the 1890s.  His other books include biographies of Tony Benn, of Gandhi, Emmeline Pankhurst and a book about the history of absinthe!

Tickets for this event are £5, plus a small booking fee and can be booked HERE through Ticketsource