Wendy Buonaventura
MIDNIGHT ROSE is based on the life of Edwardian dancer Maud Allan, who performed as the Bibleâ€™s most notorious temptress and paid the price for embodying menâ€™s worst nightmares about women. Allanâ€™s 'Vision of Salome' made her a celebrity, though the dance profession in those days was considered only a step above prostitution. In 1918 a newspaper article hinted that she was a lesbian and Allan sued for libel. The trial that followed threw a searchlight on the social hypocrisies and sexual ignorance of the age, as self-appointed guardians of public morality lined up to attack the one of the most famous women of her day.
Biography,Nonfiction
Midnight Rose: a life of Maud Allan