To Be A Woman: The Life Of Jill Craigie - Couverture rigide

Rollyson, Carl E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1854109359 ISBN 13 : 9781854109354

Editeur : Aurum Press, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Rollyson Carl

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Jill Craigie-filmmaker, writer, pioneering feminist and devoted wife to former Labour Leader Michael Foot-led an extraordinary life. Strikingly attractive, fiercely independent and politically radical, Craigie established a reputation as a filmmaker with her 1944 film, Out of Chaos, becoming the first female director to gain national attention. Talented and versatile, she wrote several film scripts, numerous articles, radio plays, and successful columns, but she always struggled as a woman and a socialist in a male-dominated, conservative industry. Her fifty-year marriage to Michael Foot, the love of her life, involved her in politics at the highest level. The couple's mutual interest in literature and the arts made their Hampstead house a meeting place for artists, writers, actors, and politicians alike. Carl Rollyson has created an intimate and honest portrait of this charismatic figure, who never ceased to push the boundaries of what it meant to be a twentieth-century woman.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Carl Rollyson has authored several biographies published by iUniverse: Lillian Hellman: Her Life and Legend, Rebecca West: A Modern Sibyl, Norman Mailer: The Last Romantic, Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn, Marie Curie: Honesty in Science, and with Lisa Paddock: Thurgood Marshall and Emily Dickinson.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Aurum Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1854109359
• ISBN 13: 9781854109354
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288