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So much more than a vote – The Suffrage Ladies' Tearoom
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The Suffrage Ladies' Tearoom. Rebellion amongst the penny buns – how tearooms changed the world. Tearooms – still going strong. So much more than a vote. July 13, 2016. For both the suffragists and the suffragettes, the struggle for the vote was about so much more than the vote. The trouble is, if you are seen as not having the intelligence or moral fibre to have a say on the way your society is run, then that means you’re also seen as incapable of running your own life and making decisions. The newspape...
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The British Library – The Suffrage Ladies' Tearoom
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The Suffrage Ladies' Tearoom. Rebellion amongst the penny buns – how tearooms changed the world. Tearooms – still going strong. Florence Nightingale – Lady of the Statistics. August 10, 2016. Florence Nightingale has always been known as the lady of the lamp. For the Victorians, it was a nice, safe, soothing image of a woman soothing a fevered brow, just as she was supposed to do at home. She set up training hospitals that began the rigorous training nurses have today, and turned nursing from a by-word f...
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Earning and (even more importantly) keeping your own money – The Suffrage Ladies' Tearoom
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The Suffrage Ladies' Tearoom. Rebellion amongst the penny buns – how tearooms changed the world. Tearooms – still going strong. Earning and (even more importantly) keeping your own money. July 13, 2016. And The Married Women’s Property Act 1870. Or how to keep your husband from getting his hands on your earnings,. Even if you’d managed to divorce him for beating you senseless). If you would like to know more about Caroline Norton, there is an excellent chapter in Margaret Forster’s ‘Significant Sisters’.
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Kate Writes and Reads: Go Set a Watchman
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Kate Writes and Reads. Tuesday, 14 July 2015. Go Set a Watchman. As just about everyone in the world knows, Go Set A Watchman. By Harper Lee is published today, 14 July. To get in the mood, and to prepare for reading it, I thought I’d speed re-read To Kill a Mockingbird. I found I didn’t want to do that – speed-read it, I mean. I wanted to take it slowly, no skimming. Can Go Set A Watchman. Its UK editor has said, 'There will be those who'll say: you have spoiled Mockingbird. This wasn't on that scale of...
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4 Ways to Immediately Improve Your Book Marketing Efforts | Jane Friedman
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Freelancers & Trusted Resources. Jane’s Email Newsletters. The Future of Reading and Writing: The Syllabus. 4 Ways to Immediately Improve Your Book Marketing Efforts. May 18, 2012. October 25, 2012. When I see bad book marketing out in the wild, I wish I could do something productive to help that author (or sometimes publisher! See how they’re wasting their time. What is bad book marketing? It’s whenever I receive:. A tweet from a total stranger asking me to look at their book. Write a brief, personalized.
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Kate Writes and Reads: February 2015
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Kate Writes and Reads. Saturday, 28 February 2015. Swimming towards the jammy doughnuts. I post here about books I’ve read each month. There are other titles that I have on the go, that I pick up and put down and don't necessarily finish the month I started – books of short stories that can be dipped into and non-fiction books where there’s no narrative and I can read a chapter every so often without losing the thread. The Penguin Book of Contemporary Women’s Short Stories. But ten times madder. There we...
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Kate Writes and Reads: January 2015
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Kate Writes and Reads. Tuesday, 20 January 2015. Two nations divided …. English and American English. ‘Two nations divided by a common language’ is a saying attributed variously to Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw and Winston Churchill and is spot-on whoever said it. The other week (there is a train of thought here) I was given a present by Amazon – yes, you read that right. For some reason I was invited to choose a free e-book from a choice of six. The first novel in her Inn at BoonsBoro trilogy. So I g...
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Kate Writes and Reads: July 2015
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Kate Writes and Reads. Friday, 24 July 2015. I read six books in June, half May’s number. But I wrote two instalments of a People’s Friend. Serial and a short story. Writing/reading – sadly, it seems I can’t do lots of both at the same time. Read my interview with Sophie here. Read for book group. This is an American YA novel about a boy born with a severe facial deformity:. My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'. As I was buying Wonder.
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Kate Writes and Reads: Beauty Tips for Girls
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Kate Writes and Reads. Saturday, 4 July 2015. Beauty Tips for Girls. One of the books I read in June, of which more anon, was Beauty Tips for Girls. By Scottish writer Margaret Montgomer. Y A blackly funny contemporary novel (highly recommended), it’s told in three voices – Katie, a fifteen-year-old girl; Corinne, Katie’s mother, who has descended into drink following the death of her young son; and Jane, Katie’s teacher. Article in Woman’s Weekly. 8216;Why it is necessary for women to powder and paint a...
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