Margaret, Baroness Thatcher

Among other women on the initial course, Ann Mitchison from the north of England goes from her dream of self-employment selling the mechanical models which her son constructs (eminently saleable, but not at a profit)...

This book (which covers the span from the queen of its title to the recent or current regimes of Margaret Thatcher , Golda Meir , and Indira Gandhi ) looks historically at the inbuilt contradictions...

This book of social history, which cites statistics to chart the decline of welfare provision during Margaret Thatcher 's prime ministership, is also full of personal witness: stories from Townsend's own life and the lives...

The book encompasses an extensive range of women's images that throughout history have appeared in English and European art and architecture. These representations include the Statue of Liberty, Hildegarde of Bingen 's Sapientia, Margaret Thatcher

The volume is divided into two parts. The first, The Adoption Papers, uses three distinct typefaces to distinguish the poem's three speakers: a daughter, her adoptive mother, and her birth mother. Based on JK

The Seer was originally commissioned in 2000 for the Highland Theatre Festival. After an offer of 6000 (pounds) or something, it ended on the back burner as result of insufficient funds and its (alleged)...

ST published True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend (in the same year as her overtly political Mr. Bevan 's Dream).

Daring to look at my work as a whole,NB said, she discerned a social and political sub-text . . . that a sociologist might call the rise and fall of the welfare state. In...

Many of the poems in this volume, written during the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher 's polarizing government, when SPseemed to be constantly angry about politics, are strongly partisan, delivering a clear political message which...

After harking back to the days in which eminent authors were not public figures, she amusingly described the culture of public performance which arose during the 1960s. Highlights in her narrative were the first Writers'...

Adrian Mole lives in Ashby-de-la-Zouch (a town whose name is seen by people living elsewhere as a joke in itself), and his teenage angst and his self-importance were a joke to readers though not to...

The play was at its outset a retelling of the story of Philoctetes, the Greek hero whom Odysseus abandons on an island but then has to lure back into his service in order to help...

The new poems at the end of this volume evidence the power and versatility that FA had reached by now. They include poems about death, dreams, erotic feeling, tiny incidents in her own and others'...

Here public themes become more important, especially in the Thatcher land series. Other poems are concerned with the depiction of character, especially with women and girls, real and imaginary.

Mary makes Lochhead's usual exuberant use of Scottish English. LL based Queen Elizabeth 's character on Margaret Thatcher (the Thatcher monster). In contrast to this topicality, as critic Anne Varty observes, her Queen...