'Make this your next inspirational read. Trust us, it's Oprah's Book
Club worthy' ViceIn London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined
women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement that would change
women's lives forever.
The play was A Taste of Honey and the
author, Shelagh Delaney, was the first in a succession of young women
who wrote about their lives with an honesty that dazzled the world. They
rebelled against sexism, inequality and prejudice and in doing so
challenged the existing definitions of what writing and writers should
be. Bypassing the London cultural elite, their work reached audiences of
millions around the world, paved the way for profound social changes
and laid the foundations of second-wave feminism.
After Delaney
came Edna O'Brien, Lynne Reid-Banks, Charlotte Bingham, Nell Dunn,
Virginia Ironside and Margaret Forster; an extraordinarily disparate
group who were united in their determination to shake the traditional
concepts of womanhood in novels, films, television, essays and
journalism. They were as angry as the Angry Young Men, but were also
more constructive and proposed new ways to live and love in the future.
They did not intend to become a literary movement but they did,
inspiring other writers to follow.
Not since the Brontes have a
group of young women been so determined to tell the truth about what it
is like to be a girl. In this biographical study, the acclaimed author,
Celia Brayfield, tells their story for the first time.
- Hardback
- 272 pages,
Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists - Celia Brayfield
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