Her brilliant career ten extraordinary women of the fifties
Journalist Rachel Cooke goes back in time to offer an entertaining and iconoclastic look at ten women in the 1950s--pioneers whose professional careers and complicated private lives helped to create the opportunities available to today's women. These intrepid and ambitious individuals--among th...
| Main Author: | Cooke, Rachel (Journalist) (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- In the kitchen with Patience Gray
- The show must go on : three trouser-wearing characters : Nancy Spain, writer and personality; Joan Werner Laurie, magazine editor; Sheila van Damm, rally-car driver and theatre manager
- A monumental ambition : Alison Smithson, architect
- In the garden with Margery Fish
- The Brontèˆs of Shepherd's Bush : Muriel Box, director, and Betty Box, producer
- Digging for victory : Jacquetta Hawkes, archaeologist
- All rise : Rose Heilbron, QC
- Fashion in the fifties
- Some good and richly subversive novels by women, 1950-60.