An Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove: The Life of Joan Rhodes

by Triona Holden

"A colorful tale full of grit and glamour." --Kate Adie

With her hourglass figure and Marilyn Monroe looks, Joan Rhodes would leave audiences speechless as she bent steel bars with her teeth, ripped large phone books into quarters, and lifted two men at a time. But what she did was real. Joan had a super strength, forged out of desperation to survive.

Born into poverty in 1920s London and abandoned by her parents,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1803997559
• ISBN13: 9781803997551
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 320 Pages