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An edition of The queen of Whale Cay (1998)

The queen of Whale Cay

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When Marion "Joe" Carstairs died in 1993 the age of 93, she was largely forgotten. During the 1920s she held the world record as the fastest female speedboat racer. But as journalist Kate Summerscale discovered, when researching an obituary for the Daily Telegraph, Carstairs was also a notorious cross-dresser who favored women and smoked cheroots.

Supremely self-confident, she inherited a Standard Oil fortune and knew how to spend her money - on fast boats and cars, on her female lovers, and on a Caribbean Island, Whale Cay, where she reigned over a colony of Bahamians. There, far from her bohemian past in London and Paris, she hosted a succession of girlfriends and celebrities, including Marlene Dietrich, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

Through it all, she remained devoted to Lord Tod Wadley, a little doll who became the bosom companion of one of the twentieth century's great eccentrics.

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Penguin Books, Viking Adult
Language
English
Pages
241

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Subjects

Biography, Eccentrics and eccentricities, Motorboat racing, Lesbians, History, New York Times reviewed, Mexico, history

People

Joe Carstairs (1900-1993)

Places

Great Britain, Whale Cay (Nichollstown and Berry Islands District, Bahamas)

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The queen of Whale Cay
1999, Penguin Books, Viking Adult
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The queen of Whale Cay
1998, Viking
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New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
972.96
Library of Congress
CT9991.C37 S96 1999, CT9991.C37 S96 1998, CT9991.C37S96 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
241 p. ;
Number of pages
241

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OL103811M
Internet Archive
queenofwhalecay0000summ_h8z4
ISBN 10
0140276130, 0670880183
LCCN
99219882, 98002806
OCLC/WorldCat
38504219
Library Thing
147656
Goodreads
18556
1219753

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