The tearooms were significant since they provided one of the first places...
The tearooms were significant since they provided one of the first places where women of the Victorian era could take a meal — sans male escort — without risk to their reputations. In at least one...
View ArticleIn 1908, the A.B.C. tea shops once again figured in women’s issues of the...
In 1908, the A.B.C. tea shops once again figured in women’s issues of the Edwardian era. It was the custom of the day for women to wear corsets so tight that it gave the wearer waistlines of as little...
View ArticleWater cure has since come to have two opposing definitions, which can cause...
Water cure has since come to have two opposing definitions, which can cause confusion. (a) a course of medical treatment by hydrotherapy (b) a form of torture in which a person is forced to drink large...
View ArticleFields was plagued with health problems the last two years of her life. In...
Fields was plagued with health problems the last two years of her life. In April 1976, her left leg was amputated above the knee when surgery to remove a blood clot failed. This caused her to use an...
View ArticleTucker played piano and sang burlesque and vaudeville tunes, at first in...
Tucker played piano and sang burlesque and vaudeville tunes, at first in blackface. She later said that this was at the insistence of theatre managers, who said she was “too fat and ugly” to be...
View ArticleAt a 1909 appearance, the luggage containing Tucker’s makeup kit was stolen...
At a 1909 appearance, the luggage containing Tucker’s makeup kit was stolen shortly before the show, and she hastily went on stage without her customary blackface. Tucker was a bigger hit without her...
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Known as the Knockers Up Gal, she has frequently been called the mother of...
Known as the Knockers Up Gal, she has frequently been called the mother of the sexual revolution. Her career began in the early 1950s in Phoenix, Arizona. Later she moved her act to Las Vegas, Nevada....
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