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- catalog abstract "British eccentric Marion "Joe" Carstairs was a world-class speedboat racer, heiress to the Standard Oil fortune, ruler of her own Caribbean Island--and a cross-dressing lesbian. During the permissive 1920s, Carstairs was able to flaunt her taste for women in the bohemian circles of London and Paris. She had affairs with numerous women, including Natalie Barney and Dolly Wilde, Oscar's niece. When writing about Carstairs's boat races, the press of that roaring decade regarded her as a loveable tomboy, but as social norms shifted in the 1930s, Carstairs's lifestyle was frowned upon. So she acquired Whale Cay, an island off the coast of Florida, turned it into her own version of paradise, became a gentleman farmer, and had an affair with Marlene Dietrich.--amazon.com.".
- catalog contributor b10756722.
- catalog coverage "Whale Cay (Bahamas) Biography.".
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "British eccentric Marion "Joe" Carstairs was a world-class speedboat racer, heiress to the Standard Oil fortune, ruler of her own Caribbean Island--and a cross-dressing lesbian. During the permissive 1920s, Carstairs was able to flaunt her taste for women in the bohemian circles of London and Paris. She had affairs with numerous women, including Natalie Barney and Dolly Wilde, Oscar's niece. When writing about Carstairs's boat races, the press of that roaring decade regarded her as a loveable tomboy, but as social norms shifted in the 1930s, Carstairs's lifestyle was frowned upon. So she acquired Whale Cay, an island off the coast of Florida, turned it into her own version of paradise, became a gentleman farmer, and had an affair with Marlene Dietrich.--amazon.com.".
- catalog extent "241 p., [24] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0670880183 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Viking,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Whale Cay (Bahamas) Biography.".
- catalog subject "972.96 B 21".
- catalog subject "CT9991.C37 S96 1998".
- catalog subject "Carstairs, Joe, 1900-1993.".
- catalog subject "Eccentrics and eccentricities Biography.".
- catalog subject "Lesbians Biography.".
- catalog subject "Motorboat racing Great Britain History.".
- catalog title "The queen of Whale Cay / Kate Summerscale.".
- catalog type "text".