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Tiger Woman
Betty May

Tiger Woman

ISBN 9780715654910 Published 16 March 2023
£9.99

Dancer, singer, gang member, cocaine addict and artist’s favourite: Betty May – aka the Tiger Woman – was a woman like no other.

Born into abject poverty in Limehouse, Betty May used her striking looks and fierce street nous to become an unlikely bohemian celebrity sensation between the wars. A model and muse for artists and writers including Augustus John, Jacob Epstein, Jacob Kramer and David Garnett, May elbowed her way to the top of London’s social scene in a succession of outrageous and dramatic fights, flights, marriages and misadventures that also took her to France, Italy, Canada and the USA.

Tiger Woman is her incredible story in her own words, as vivid and extraordinary as the day it was first told.
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Book details
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780715654910
Published
16 March 2023
Pages
256
Dimensions
129 x 198 mm
Genre
Memoir and Biography
Imprint
Duckworth

About the author

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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