Aimée Crocker is one of the women I'd like to highlight today. In the 1910s, the world press branded her the "Queen of Bohemia" for living an unfettered, sexually liberated, and non-conformist life in San Francisco, New York, and Paris. #InternationalWomensDay 
Crocker refused to live a conventional life.
For example, she invited all of blue blood NY to a bday party for the Maharajah of Amber, laughed as the faint of heart in the crowd collapsed and screamed for the exits as they learned that the Maharajah was her pet boa constrictor.
For example, she invited all of blue blood NY to a bday party for the Maharajah of Amber, laughed as the faint of heart in the crowd collapsed and screamed for the exits as they learned that the Maharajah was her pet boa constrictor.
Not to forget the day she orchestrated a drinking game with Oscar Wilde, and the day she went to the red-light district of Hong Kong by rickshaw, hung out at an opium den and paid to free an addicted slave prostitute.
In 1936, she wrote a travel book, "And I’d Do It Again."
Included in her life story: a harrowing honeymoon train crash in California; a blood curdling escape down a jungle river; an abduction by a Dyak prince; a lesbian double suicide...
Included in her life story: a harrowing honeymoon train crash in California; a blood curdling escape down a jungle river; an abduction by a Dyak prince; a lesbian double suicide...
a poisoning in Hong Kong; a murder attempt by knife-throwing servants in Shanghai; and two bizarre sensual/sexual experiences, one with an Indian boa constrictor, and another with a Chinese violin in the “House of the Ivory Panels.”
Her life is a cabinet of human curiosities, a celebration of some of the most eccentric, extravagant and extraordinary personalities from the Civil War to World War II.
Read more/source: aimeecrocker.com/who-is-aimee-i…
Read more/source: aimeecrocker.com/who-is-aimee-i…
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