An Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove
The Life of Joan Rhodes
With her hourglass figure and Marilyn Monroe looks, Joan Rhodes would leave audiences speechless as she bent steel bars with her teeth, ripped large phone books into quarters, and lifted two men at a time. But what she did was real. Joan had a superstrength, forged out of desperation to survive.Born into poverty in 1920s London and abandoned by her parents, Joan endured a spell in the workhouse and earned scraps busking on the streets. Despite the worst possible start, she made it to the top of her profession to rub sequined shoulders with the likes of Fred Astaire, Bob Hope and Sammy Davis Jnr. Joan's crowning glory was to perform for the Qu…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7509-9922-9
- EAN: 9780750999229
- Produktnummer: 37288300
- Verlag: The History Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: Integrated images
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Triona Holden is an author, artist, journalist and broadcaster. She spent more than twenty years working as one of the BBC's top correspondents and presenters. Her books include Queen Coal, on the women of the 1980s miners' strike. She lives in Whitstable in Kent.
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