# Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives - Hardcover

by **Jad Adams** (Author)

**The never-before-told story of the extraordinary women behind a trailblazing British magazine.**

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 favored 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.

### Author Biography

**Jad Adams** is a research fellow at the Institute of English, School of Advanced Study, University of London. His many books include _Women and the Vote: A World History_.

**Number of Pages:** 400

**Dimensions:** 1.28 x 9.51 x 6.44 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** December 20, 2023

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