The Scroller on MSN

20 vintage photos that capture the ruckus of "flapper culture" (1920s-1930s)

The 1920s were a period of significant social transformation. After WWI, society was ready for something new, and young women ...
Chicago Reader

Flappers: An introduction to six women who roared through the 1920s

The six subjects of Judith Mackrell’s new group biography, Flappers, were notorious celebrities in the 1920s, though mostly forgotten today, which is as good a reason as any to pick up the book and ...
Creators Syndicate on MSN

Origin of 1920s term triggers flapdoodle

As 2025, the centennial year of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, comes to a close, let's examine the origins of a ...
Los Angeles Times

‘Flappers’ by Judith Mackrell roars with remarkable women

Judith Mackrell’s “Flappers” is a juicy, energetic exploration of six dazzling iconoclasts who all flared to fame in the Roaring ‘20s. Unlike recent books such as Simon Winchester’s “The Professor and ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘Downton Abbey’ Season Three: Flapper Fashions, Women’s Suffrage, Jazz Clubs, Cocktails (Video)

A look ahead at what the denizens of 'Downton Abbey' will face when the new season enters the tumultuous Roaring Twenties. No more corsets! By Elizabeth Snead Maggie Smith Elizabeth McGovern Downton ...
The Independent

Review: Flappers - Six Women of a Dangeous Generation, By Judith Mackrell

"My candle burns at both ends/ It will not last the night/ But ah my foes, and oh my friends/ It gives a lovely light", wrote Edna St Vincent Millay in 1920, in a poem that Mackrell acknowledges was ...