Ebook: Rebel writers: the accidental feminists: Shelagh Delaney, Edna O'Brien, Lynne Reid-Banks, Charlotte Bingham, Nell Dunn, Virginia Ironside, Margaret Forster
Author: Bingham Charlotte, Brayfield Celia, Delaney Shelagh, Dunn Nell, Forster Margaret, Ironside Virginia, O'Brien Edna, Reid Banks Lynne
- Tags: Autorin, Frauenliteratur, Women authors English, Women authors English--Great Britain--History--20th century, History, Women authors English -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Great Britain, Delaney Shelagh -- 1939-2011, Dunn Nell -- 1936-, Forster Margaret -- 1938-2016, Ironside Virginia -- 1945-, O'Brien Edna -- 1930-, Großbritannien, Reid Banks Lynne, Bingham Charlotte -- 1942
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
- City: Great Britain;Großbritannien
- Language: English
- epub
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In London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement that would change women's lives forever. The play was A Taste of Honey and the author, Shelagh Delaney, was the first in a succession of young women who wrote about their lives with an honesty that dazzled the world. They rebelled against sexism, inequality and prejudice and in doing so challenged the existing definitions of what writing and writers should be. Bypassing the London cultural elite, their work reached audiences of millions around the world, paved the way for profound social changes and laid the foundations of second-wave feminism.
After Delaney came Edna O'Brien, Lynne Reid-Banks, Charlotte Bingham, Nell Dunn, Virginia Ironside and Margaret Forster; an extraordinarily disparate group who were united in their determination to shake the traditional...
In London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement that would change women's lives forever. The play was A Taste of Honey and the author, Shelagh Delaney, was the first in a succession of young women who wrote about their lives with an honesty that dazzled the world. They rebelled against sexism, inequality and prejudice and in doing so challenged the existing definitions of what writing and writers should be. Bypassing the London cultural elite, their work reached audiences of millions around the world, paved the way for profound social changes and laid the foundations of second-wave feminism.
After Delaney came Edna O'Brien, Lynne Reid-Banks, Charlotte Bingham, Nell Dunn, Virginia Ironside and Margaret Forster; an extraordinarily disparate group who were united in their determination to shake the traditional...
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