But in those days I was young, and my youth among other objectionable forms took that of a pride in my capacity for affairs. It may be there are directions in which I have some capacity, but the conduct of business operations is not among these. I can admit, even, that to a certain extent my disasters were conceivably of my own making. Sitting now surrounded by all the circumstances of wealth, there is a luxury in admitting my extremity. I may perhaps mention here that very recently I had come an ugly cropper in certain business enterprises. So utterly at variance is destiny with all the little plans of men. "Here, at any rate," said I, "I shall find peace and a chance to work!" And this book is the sequel. I had gone to Lympne because I had imagined it the most uneventful place in the world. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself removed from the slightest possibility of disturbing experiences. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr.
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Now for the first time, her son Robert recounts the unexpected life that Helen went on to live of the remarkable love story with a young man from a background a million miles away from everything a Lancashire Lass like Helen would have known and of the astonishing lengths she went to in order to achieve happiness. It was a story filled with tragedy and small triumphs but many readers wondered what happened to Helen when she grew up what became of the fragile young girl who had so much responsibility heaped on her shoulders? Later in life, Helen wrote a ground-breaking series of memoirs, starting with Twopence to Cross the Mersey, which told the harrowing account of her family’s struggles in Depression-era Liverpool. When Helen Forrester’s father went bankrupt in the 1930’s, she and her six siblings fell from a comfortable middle-class existence into wretched poverty. The remarkable story of Helen Forrester, author of Twopence to Cross the Mersey, and how she turned tragedy to triumph. I had lots of strange things in my head during my teens and twenties. I had it in my head that I could not both be a feminist and be sexually open. When I was called a feminist, during those days, my first thought was, But I willingly give blow jobs. In fact, it was generally intended as such. I disavowed feminism because when I was called a feminist, the label felt like an insult. I understand why women still fall over themselves to disavow feminism, to distance themselves. When I was younger, I disavowed feminism with alarming frequency. Then they get knocked off when they fuck it up. People who are placed on pedestals are expected to pose, perfectly. I am a bad feminist because I never want to be placed on a Feminist Pedestal. I am just trying - trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself: a woman who loves pink and likes to get freaky and sometimes dances her ass off to music she knows, she knows, is terrible for women and who sometimes plays dumb with repairmen because it's just easier to let them feel macho than it is to stand on the moral high ground. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. What sites your reviews are posted on (B&N, Amazon, etc.) and whether you send digital (eBook, PDF, Word, etc.) or hard copies of your books to each other for review is up to you. Simply put, you agree to provide an honest review an author's book in exchange for the author doing the same for you. This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Review Exchange Program, which is open to all authors and is completely free. 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He is in an unconsummated marriage to Edith, a campaigner for women’s rights and, initially at least, appears naive about her lesbianism. In his belated self-acceptance, he also wants society to become tolerant of homosexuality and believes the book will provide the historical, scientific and moral case for doing so.Įllis, who is medically qualified but now focuses on writing and research, apparently has more of a political and intellectual interest. In late-nineteenth-century London, John Addington and Henry Ellis (based on John Addington Symonds and Havelock Ellis) correspond with a view to writing Sexual Inversion, a book on male homosexuality.Īddington, a married father of three who has struggled to repress his homosexuality, forms a passionate relationship with a younger working-class man called Frank Feaver. The N ew Life draws on real events, but freely adapts them. 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The musical references are just as tasty with my favourite being the Hucknall Bean though the clever mention of Simon le Bon's pop rockers made me smile as well. In fact I would venture to say that some aspects of it such as the action sequences are even better. He then changed the sex of his leading heroes, replaced the excellent Jeff Harding with Katherine Fenton, moved most of his delicious musical references to the 1980s and started 6 years after the end of the previous book! I can only imagine how deliciously smug Mr Eames might have become after taking these brave moves because "Bloody Rose" delivers an equally riotously funny, action-packed fantasy experience as the Kings book did. But that would be to miss the fact that he largely ditched his old characters, changed from an aging band reforming one last time to a current and vibrant one. And you could argue that Eames did that by continuing his stories of mercenary bands roaming the Heartwyld and its environs. When most sensible debut authors produce something as spectacularly good as Nicholas Eames did with his Kings of the Wyld opener to "The Band" series they tend to follow up with something that gives the fans exactly what they want. I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation," she said in an interview with DC Writers Homes.Īuthor Robyn Thurman, New York Times bestselling author of the Cal Leandros series, kept her gender unknown until the release of her third book. I had the feeling that a man would slip by less observed. "A male name seemed like good camouflage. Alice Bradley Sheldon, a painter, graphic artist, and art critic, wrote science fiction as James Tiptree Jr. For many, it was not to break free from preconceived gender norms, but instead to express themselves in other ways.įor some writers, adopting a male pen name was done to be taken seriously in a male-dominated industry. These writers have chosen to publish under these pen names for a variety of reasons, including circumnavigating gendered expectations. Throughout history, many female authors have chosen to write under alternate male pseudonyms. Women have contributed to the art of the written word for thousands of years. Centring on the shocking opening night of Pygmalion – the first time that the word ‘bloody’ was used on the British stage – it also explores the passionate love-hate relationship between Shaw his leading man, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (Richard McCabe) and his leading lady, Mrs Patrick Campbell (Charlotte Page), who played the 19-year-old Eliza Doolittle at the age of 49.Ĭlara Eynsford-Hill – Maeve Bluebell Wells This effervescent radio version of Shaw’s classic comedy features a stellar cast, including award-winning comedians Alistair McGowan as Henry Higgins, Morgana Robinson as Eliza Doolittle and Al Murray as Alfred Doolittle.Īlso featured on this release is The ‘B’ Word, written by and starring Alistair McGowan as Bernard Shaw. As the day of reckoning approaches, can Eliza convince the assembled aristocrats that she’s one of them? And what will become of her afterwards? Irascible phonetics professor Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can train Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle to talk ‘like a lady’ and pass as a duchess at the Ambassador’s Ball. A star-studded BBC radio production of Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, plus bonus drama The ‘B’ Word, telling the story of the play’s scandalous opening night |