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Rosemary Hill
Rosemary Hill’s biography of Pugin, God’s Architect, has just appeared in paperback.
From the London Review dated 24 May 2007
- Can Any Mother Help Me? Fifty Years of Friendship through a Secret Magazine by Jenna Bailey Buy this book
The last daughters of the Victorians were destined to occupy a peculiar place in history. Born before women got the vote, many of them lived through two world wars to see The Female Eunuch published and watch Margaret Thatcher arrive in Downing Street. Contraception, education, economic independence all became widely available to women in their lifetimes, while the institutions that had seemed to frame their destiny at birth, the empire, the class system and marriage, came to count for much less. In some ways that made them fortunate, witnesses to if not participants in the forward march of emancipation. Yet in others they were particularly unlucky. As old certainties broke down behind them, the new opportunities were often slow to open up ahead. They were caught in a kind of social airlock. [ read more . . . ]
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