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Josser The Secret Life of a Circus Girl by Nell Stroud ISBN ISBN Paperback; London: Virago Press, Limited, September 1, ; ISBN She wrote a book about her circus life called Josser: The Secret Life of a Showgirl (); a "josser" is a circus word for an outsider. Also in , she married Toti, a farmer's son. Josser by Nell Stroud available in Trade Paperback on www.doorway.ru, also read synopsis and reviews. JOSSER is the powerful and moving account of Oxford-educated Nell Stroud's life in the circus. It is.
As an outsider, a josser (a person who works in the circus who's not from a circus family), she's treated with initial coldness, then accepted into the circus community, one where loyalty and comradeship are entwined, always, with viperous and self-serving behaviour, where grudges are common but transient, and where the romance of the circus image is balanced, if not entirely replaced, by the unending slog of its reality – surviving against the indifference of audiences, against the. The Oxford-educated girl from a bohemian family ran away to the circus, not to join it but to found, with her then husband, Toti Gifford, her own; a retro-chic troupe based on Gifford’s idea of. www.doorway.ru: Josser: The Secret Life of a Circus Girl () by NELL STROUD and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices.
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