Biography of Gypsy Rose Lee, reassessing the burlesque performer's life and art within the cultural context of post-Depression America. Loosely inserted within the back sleeve is a handbill for a London theatre production of 'Britten in Brooklyn', about the New York house in which Gypsy Rose Lee lived with Benjamin Britten, WH Auden and Carson McCullers.

Item number 70967
Category Book
Type Biography
Language English
Country of origin America
Related people Gypsy Rose Lee (Subject)
Karen Abbott (Author)

Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection