Why I'm Not A Millionaire - The dazzling memoir of an extraordinary trailblazer

Zusatztext It is cruel that all that gaiety, intelligence and vitality should be snuffed out, when so many bores and horrors are left living Informationen zum Autor Nancy Spain was a prominent novelist, broadcaster and journalist. She was a columnist for the Daily Express and She magazine in the 1950s and 1960s. She also appeared on many radio broadcasts, particularly on Woman's Hour, and later as a panellist on the television programmes What's My Line? and Juke Box Jury. Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1917, she was the great-niece of the legendary Mrs Beeton. During the second world war she worked as a driver and served in the WRNS and after the war she published several detective novels set at a girls' school. Always controversial, her column-writing caused the Daily Express to be sued - twice - by Evelyn Waugh. Klappentext The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author - a woman very much ahead of her time. 'She was bold, she was brave, she was funny, she was feisty. I owe her a great deal in leading the way' Sandi Toksvig Zusammenfassung The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author - a woman very much ahead of her time. 'She was bold, she was brave, she was funny, she was feisty. I owe her a great deal in leading the way' Sandi Toksvig

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Nancy Spain, Spain Nancy
• Editore: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781474618458
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-1845-8
• Pagine: 400
• Dimensioni: 128 mm x 196 mm x 24 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Saggistica > Arte, letteratura > Biografie, autobiografie; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, HISTORY / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Autobiography: literary, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies: women, Intended primarily or specifically for women and/or girls, Of specific Gay interest, Relating to gay people, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ+