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The book is a first-person narrative in which Mildred Lathbury records the humdrum details of her everyday life in post-war London near the start of the 1950s. Perpetually self-deprecating, but with the sharpest wit, Mildred is a clergyman's daughter who is now just over thirty and lives in "a shabby part…very much the 'wrong' side of Victoria Station".
An Exceptional Woman: The Writings of Heather Tanner was edited by her friend Rosemary Devonald and published by Hobnob Press in 2006. It includes memories of Heather’s early life in Corsham, a fine essay on the Wiltshire Countryside , and What I Believe outlining her Quaker philosophy.
Barbara Mary Crampton Pym FRSL (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist. In the 1950s she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958).
The Huffington Post reached out to historians across the country to create a list of women who deserve more recognition for their accomplishments. ‘12 Badass Women’ by Huffington Post
Amna Al-Nasiri was born in 1970 in Radda, Yemen Arab Republic (now Yemen).She grew up in a small family that included her mother, a sister, and two brothers. Her mother, Hila Atiq, was an exceptional woman for her time, she stood out in Radda for her literacy skills, which were uncommon among women in Yemen; particularly in rural areas like Radda.
The co-founder of Boston Women in Media & Entertainment from 2012 to 2020, she spent 25 years on the air at WMJX, Magic 106.7, and is the creator of the station's signature public affairs program Exceptional Women. O'Terry has been profiled in the book: Boston Inspirational Women by Bill and Kerry Brett.
The novel tells the story of Divine, a trans woman who, when the novel opens, has died of tuberculosis and been canonised as a result. The narrator tells us that the stories he is telling are mainly to amuse himself whilst he passes his sentence in prison – and the highly erotic, often explicitly sexual, stories are spun to assist his masturbation.
Extraordinary Women is Compton Mackenzie's twentieth novel published in 1928. It is a satire [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] set on the island of Sirene, a fictionalized version of the real island of Capri , [ 4 ] and his second novel to be set in this location.