Jane Cholmeley

A Bookshop of One's Own

How a Group of Women Set out to Change the World

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Produktbeschreibung

Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards for Non Fiction A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024 An Independentand StylistBest Non-Fiction Book for 2024 The captivating true story of an underdog business - a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher's Britain - from a woman at the heart of the women's liberation movement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 139mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780008651046
• ISBN-10: 0008651043
• Artikelnr.: 68271171

Autorenporträt

Jane Cholmeley is a key figure in the history of British feminism. She co-founded Silver Moon Women's Bookshop, which became the largest of its kind in Europe and a vibrant centre of women's writing, hosting prestigious events with authors such as Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Jeanette Winterson and Margaret Atwood. Sandi Toksvig nominated Jane Cholmeley as a Gay Icon in the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition of that name in 2009 and Jacqueline Wilson named Jane her feminist icon in Stylist, 2018.