British Worthies
David Cannadine, 3 December 1981
The Directory of National Biography, 1961-1970
edited by E.T. Williams and C.S. Nicholls.
Oxford, 1178 pp., £40, October 1981,0 19 865207 0 Show More
edited by E.T. Williams and C.S. Nicholls.
Oxford, 1178 pp., £40, October 1981,
“... and royals (Princess Marina, Queen Victoria Eugénie, the Princess Royal). Vera Brittain, Ivy Williams (‘the first woman to be called to the English bar’) and Rachel Crowdy (she ‘belonged to a generation when women had to possess very obvious strength of character if they were to attain recognition’) are the only women who might be described as ... ”
