Margaret, Baroness Thatcher

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...

ML served as Vice-Chairman of the Arts Council for these four years, during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher .

According to her later explanation, the dropping of poetry was a direct result of the policies of the Margaret Thatcher era: the result was that plans for a third volume of JK 's work from...

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

PH 's political opinions were riddled with contradictions. On some issues she was a reactionary, even a racist. Yet she took intensely to heart such incidents of individual or international violence as the shooting of...

Fairly typical of GG 's recent journalism in many different venues are a sizzling analysis of Margaret Thatcher and the nature and effects of Thatcherism published in the Guardian Weekly on 24 April 2009, and...

In December 1978 AF voted Conservative, knowing little about Margaret Thatcher but excited by the idea of a woman becoming Prime Minister for the first time. She later regretted it. In the 1980s she and...

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...

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)...

CAD is a socialist and a feminist. She nevertheless describes herself as less political than most of her relations (except, perforce, during the Margaret Thatcher years), as if her energy had gone into poetry instead...

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'...

SD later observed that during the 1980s, her debut decade, the stage was becoming a harsher environment as the wave of radicalism ebbed and conditions worsened. Margaret Thatcher (who became Prime Minister on 4 May...

The play explores women's quest for success in patriarchal society, and the expense at which this success is achieved, particularly in relation to motherhood. It has been considered as a kind of answer to Nell Dunn

NB was a contemporary at Somerville of the future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher , with whom she had a political argument (which she felt that she lost). She was very briefly a friend of actor...

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...