"Flapper Americana Novissima"
Magazine article
By: G. Stanley Hall
Date: June 1922
Source: Hall, G. Stanley. "Flapper Americana Novissima." The Atlantic Monthly, June 1922, 771, 773–774, 775, 776.
About the Author: Grenville Stanley Hall (1844–1924) was a longtime psychological and social observer who specialized in the field of adolescent development.
Introduction
The term flapper appears to have made its American debut in the February 1915 issue of the New York–based satire/arts review, The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness. In an article in the review, author Henry L. Mencken introduced the word, which seems to have already been in use over in Britain to describe a certain type of young woman. In the United States, up until that time, the French word ingénue was invariably employed.
According to Mencken, the flapper was a young, modern,...
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