A Working Woman: The Remarkable Life of Ray Strachey - Couverture rigide

Holmes, Jennifer

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ISBN 10 : 1789016541 ISBN 13 : 9781789016543

Editeur : Matador, 2019

Synopsis

A Working Woman: The Remarkable Life of Ray Strachey is a traditional biography of a very untraditional woman. Tug-of-love child, Ward in Chancery, pampered schoolgirl, pioneer car driver, would-be electrical engineer, triumphant suffragist, political lobbyist, historian, biographer, novelist, journalist, broadcaster, well-known public figure, enthusiastic bricklayer, devoted mother, despairing stepmother, neglected wife: Ray Strachey was all of these and more. Bertrand Russell taught her maths; John Maynard Keynes fell (a little) in love with her; Virginia Woolf was over-awed by her; Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Nancy Astor depended on her. She inspired admiration in men and gratitude close to worship in women. 

As a close colleague of Millicent Fawcett, Ray Strachey played a major, non-violent, role in gaining British women the vote in 1918. She was one of the first female Parliamentary candidates, and became one of the leading feminists of the inter-war years, devoted in particular to improving employment opportunities for women. A brilliant political lobbyist with an extraordinary range of contacts, she was also a celebrated author, journalist and broadcaster, still remembered for her classic history of the Women’s Movement, The Cause (1928). She achieved all this as a working mother with overwhelming family responsibilities and an unusual (some said eccentric) private life.

Lavishly illustrated, this first full account of Ray Strachey’s life is based on extensive research and draws heavily on her own lively and forthright comments on people and events. Interweaving her public roles with her challenging private life on the fringes of the Bloomsbury set, it features a host of well-known personalities, and introduces a new generation of readers to a fascinating though neglected fighter for women’s rights.

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À propos de l'auteur

Based in London, Jennifer Holmes read English at St Anne’s College, Oxford, before joining the Civil Service. After a career break she worked as genealogist, researcher and eventually co-editor on the letters of Isaiah Berlin, then was awarded a DPhil in Biography by the University of Buckingham for her work on Ray Strachey.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Matador
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1789016541
• ISBN 13: 9781789016543
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 392
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible