Betty May

Duckworth

Betty May

Betty May (born 1894) was a British singer, dancer and artist’s model. She was a member of the London Bohemian set of the interwar years, claimed to have joined a criminal gang in Paris, and became associated, through one of her husbands, with occultist Aleister Crowley. Tiger Woman was first published by Duckworth in 1929. May died in obscurity in the mid-1950s.

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Tiger Woman

The fearless tale of the original ‘Party Girl’, in her own frankly scurrilous words: a Duckworth contemporary classic, beautifully repackaged for its 125th anniversary

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