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An Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove: The Life of Joan Rhodes by Triona Holden (Hardcover, 2021)
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The first-ever biography of a trailblazing star of yesteryear. With her svelte hourglass figure and Marilyn Monroe looks, Joan Rhodes would leave audiences speechless as she bent steel bars with her teeth, ripped large phone books into quarters, and lifted two men at a time, one in each hand. But what she did was real. Joan had a super-strength. Born into poverty in 1920s London and abandoned by her parents, Joan endured spells in the workhouse and earned scraps busking on the streets. Despite the worst possible start, she made it to the top of her profession to rub sequined shoulders with the likes of Marlene Dietrich, Fred Astaire and Sammy Davis Jnr. Her crowning glory was to perform for the Queen and Prince Philip at Windsor Castle. Joan saw herself as a freak, but in truth she was a champion for the so-called 'fairer sex'. At a time when women were still groomed for marriage and motherhood, An Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove tells the fascinating and tumultuous story of a woman who forged her own unique path. AUTHOR: Triona Holden is an author, artist and journalist with over twenty years' experience as one of the BBC's top correspondents and presenters. Her books include Queen Coal on the women of the 1980s miner's strike. She lives in Whitstable.Product Identifiers
PublisherT.H.E. Hi-Story Press LTD
ISBN-139780750996792
eBay Product ID (ePID)5049904715
Product Key Features
Book TitleAn Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove: the Life of Joan Rhodes
AuthorTriona Holden
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicTelevision, Zoology
Publication Year2021
TypeTextbook
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height216mm
Item Width138mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorTriona Holden
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 07 May, 2022
The Right Result By the Wrong Action
This book is of value for things the author never realised. She was not interested in relating the important feats of Joan Rhodes strength, but in matters of personality which are of no importance - without realising it, by indiscriminately printing many photos of Joan Rhodes, she made it clear that all these photos, if you look carefully, are of different women! She revealed that there was an industry of Joan Rhodes imitators, and this is important when we see feats requiring very little strength. They were meant to make people believe she had much less strength than she really had, which is proof, as clear as any photo of a genuine feat, that Joan Rhodes had achieved something fantastic that it was important people did not believe! If it is really possible that such a valuable result was created by a focusing on the unimportant, then it is clear that there is some factor above rational decision involved.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 16 May, 2024
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