A review by 24hourlibrary
Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham, by Emily Bingham

3.0

Admittedly a somewhat-biased writer, Emily Bingham writes of her great aunt Henrietta Bingham. Much of the biography is devoted not to Bingham's Jazz Age antics, but to her childhood and a fair amount of her life after the Jazz Age. The book chronicles more Bingham's effect on those around her than Bingham herself, who remains a cloudy figure through the last page. The author has put a painstaking amount of work in collecting relics from her relative's life in the form of letters, diaries, and other bits, however, which helps to, at least, develop a detailed sense of the life Bingham lived if not Bingham herself.