Now that we’ve cleared up the mystery of Lillian Collier: The Vanishing Flapper, we’re left with another mystery: what was the deal with Virginia Harrison, her “aid?” Virginia Harrison, left, with LillianCollier, Feb, 1922, in the Tribune When the Wind Blew Inn, a bohemian tea room, was raided on February 13, 1922, the police arrested 40…
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Lillian Collier: Mystery Solved!
Since the story of Lillian Collier, the flapper who seemed to disappear from the record in 1924, figures heavily into the rough draft of my new novel, I doubled my efforts to find out the rest of her story – and I’m pleased to say that I have finally solved the mystery of what happened…
The Flapper’s Mother: Feminism in 1912?
Yesterday we reported on new information on Lillian Collier , the flapper we’ve been talking about for years. Lillian ran an outfit called The Wind Blew Inn and was the darling of Chicago bohemia in 1920-22, and in 1925 gave an interview saying that flappers were not “savages,” but evidence of a new era of freedom…
Lillian Collier: The Mysterious Flapper – new data!
I’ve written quite a lot about Lillian Collier of the Wind Blew Inn, a flapper who was sentenced to read a book of fairy tales to cure her bohemianism in 1922. A few years later she appeared in a widely-circulated article saying that flappers were not “savages,” but represented a new era of freedom for women….
Whatever Happened to Lillian Collier: Teenage Flapper?
Update, 2014: We’ve had a break in the case! The facts are these: Lillian Collier (sometimes spelled Collee, or even Kelly) came to Chicago around 1920 from Greenwich Village, intent on converting Chicagoans to “real life.” Only a teenager by most accounts, her poetry made her the darling of the Dil Pickle Club. Some accounts…
Snugglepupping at the Wind Blew Inn
There’s an early 20s slang term I’ve been trying to revive: snugglepupping. It was coined, as far as anyone knows, right here in Chicago, down at the courthouse on Hubbard and Dearborn, by one Miss Lillian Collier. Here’s Lillian on the right: Lillian was a teenage flapper when she moved to Chicago, determined to turn…