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Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age (Dilly's Story) - Softcover

Maxtone Graham, Ysenda

 
9780349144412: Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age (Dilly's Story)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0349144419 ISBN 13: 9780349144412
Verlag: Abacus, 2024

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A unique take on women's history from the bestselling author of British Summer Time Begins

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Ysenda Maxtone Graham was born in 1962 and educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Girton College, Cambridge. She has written for many newspapers and magazines as a features writer, book reviewer and columnist. She is the author of six books: The Church Hesitant: A Portrait of the Church of England Today; The Real Mrs Miniver, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the Year Award; Mr Tibbits's Catholic School; An Insomniac's Guide to the Small Hours; Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979; British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer Holidays, 1930-1980, which was a Sunday Times bestseller. She lives in London with her husband and three sons.

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'Witty, clever and warm-hearted, Jobs for the Girls is a book to remind women of how universal our experiences were' Melanie Reid, The Times

Drawn from real life, from interviews with women from all sections of society who have ever had a job, this book is a portrait of British women's working lives from 1950, through cardigans and pearls, via mini-skirts and bottom-pinching, to shoulder pads and the ping of the first emails (early 1990s), never forgetting overalls, aprons and uniforms.

'Terrific... What struck me, as I devoured the recollections of 200-plus women, is how recently all this thwarting of female lives went on... How poignant and powerful is this secret history as it tells us her story' Daily Telegraph

'I actually do not know of any writer alive in the English language who is cleverer, more observant or who has told us more about ourselves' A.N. Wilson, Spectator

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Verlag
Abacus
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0349144419
ISBN 13 
9780349144412
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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