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politics | Antonia Fraser | 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... |
Publishing | Germaine Greer | 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... |
Textual Features | Sue Townsend | 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... |
Textual Features | Timberlake Wertenbaker | 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... |
Textual Features | Fleur Adcock | 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'... |
Textual Features | Liz Lochhead | Mary makes Lochhead's usual exuberant use of Scottish English. LL
based Queen Elizabeth
's character on Margaret Thatcher
(the Thatcher monster). Varty, Anne. “The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 641-58. 651 |
Textual Features | Fleur Adcock | 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. |
Textual Features | Ruth Padel | Angel's focus on madness has been explained in several ways. Perhaps it is there because Padel was also working at this time on Whom Gods Destroy, an academic book about madness (which these... |
Textual Features | Nina Bawden | 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... |
Textual Features | Sheenagh Pugh | 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... |
Textual Features | Margaret Drabble | 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'... |
Textual Production | Ali Smith | The Seer was originally commissioned in 2000 for the |
Textual Production | Sue Townsend | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sue Townsend | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jackie Kay | 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 |
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