Bibliograph

Defending Alice, a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties, Richard Stratton

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Label

Defending Alice, a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties, Richard Stratton

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Defending Alice

Responsibility statement

Richard Stratton

Sub title

a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties

Summary

In a novel based on a real-life case, 1920s New York society is set ablaze when Alice Jones, a working-class woman with at least one black parent, marries Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the son of a wealthy, prominent family, who makes international headlines after he sues for annulment, accusing her of hiding her "Negro blood."

Target audience

adult

Classification