ON LINDA’S DESK
Financial prosperity
Roaring twenties
Decadence
Empowerment
Flappers in bobs and short dresses
AUTHOR’S NOTE: why I wrote ‘Amelia Bejeweled’ – Young women have long fought against traditional ways. With WW1 and the pandemic over, the world was primed for the Roaring Twenties. Women wanted the right to vote, greater independence, higher fashion, and sexual freedoms.
Fourteen year old Amelia knew exactly what she wanted. Living in a remote community in western Canada, during the pre roaring twenties, could not cool the wild desires in the girl. She wanted to be draped in fashion and jewels, to be downright outrageous, immoral and live dangerously. Amelia was not about to succumb to the expectations of an outdated patriarchy. She was young, fast-moving, fast-talking, reckless. Amelia was a new breed of feminists.
The new doctor was Amelia’s prince charming, delivered to Hiccupville by an exquisite horse-drawn carriage.
The 1920s was a decade of change. The Jazz Age roared loud and long. For the first time, the general population owned cars, radios, and telephones . Cars demanded the need for good roads. Radio brought the world into people’s homes. Telephone connected families and friends from afar. And women’s voices were no longer muffled.