Description: Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists by Celia Brayfield The first book about a generation of women writers who challenged the world. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Make this your next inspirational read. Trust us, its Oprahs Book Club worthy ViceIn London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined womens writing in Britain. It also began a movement that would change womens 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 OBrien, 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 Brontës 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. Author Biography Celia Brayfield is an author whose nine novels range from modern social fiction to international bestsellers. Her subjects are mostly women, working through changes in themselves and the world, and other themes are the psychogeography of London suburbs, media overshadow and British ex-pats abroad. This is her fifth non-fiction book and her earlier work includes a study of celebrity culture, travel writing and classic writing guides. She teaches Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her first career was as a journalist, working mostly for The Times and the Evening Standard. Born in North London, she was educated at St Pauls Girls School and briefly studied French language and literature at Grenoble University. She has one daughter and lives in Dorset. Table of Contents IntroductionPart One: Seven Writers1. Innocence and Experience2. A Mans World: Sexism3. Forbidden Kisses: Class4. All False: Love5. I Wish I Had a Career: Aspiration6. The Great Unmentionable: Sex7. Drowning in Delight: Motherhood8. A Rotten Bargain: Marriage9. Good Old John: Race10. Before the Urban Family: FriendshipPart Two: Out into the World11. Where is your Baby?12. Losing It at the Movies: Screen Adaptation13. A Stain Upon Womanhood14. The Angry Young Men: The Literary Movement That Never Was15. Backwards in High Heels: Success And After16. We Were PioneersEpilogueEndnotesBibliographyAcknowledgementsIndex Review Writers who changed lives. Rebel Writers is a startling new approach to literary criticism - not just what was done, but why it had to be done - mingled with astute social history. All sorts of things we should know but dont know about the sixties, all smoothly and elegantly written and as readable as any novel. Six writers to whom we owe a debt of gratitude, all in their own ways sowing the seeds of how we live today. Marvellously interesting! -- Fay WeldonMake this your next inspirational read. Trust us, its Oprahs Book Club worthy. * Vice *Brayfields equally illuminating book homes in on the late 1950s and early 1960s, revealing that (Shelagh) Delaney wasnt the only one showing that female experience was about more than just falling in love... Brayfield offers us perceptive analysis of the writing and ratifies these womens position in the canon in the process. Perfect companion volumes, Tastes of Honey and Rebel Writers make for entertaining, edifying and important reading. * Financial Times Weekend * Promotional The first book about a generation of women writers who challenged the world. Review Quote Writers who changed lives. Rebel Writers is a startling new approach to literary criticism - not just what was done, but why it had to be done - mingled with astute social history. All sorts of things we should know but dont know about the sixties, all smoothly and elegantly written and as readable as any novel. Six writers to whom we owe a debt of gratitude, all in their own ways sowing the seeds of how we live today. Marvellously interesting! Promotional "Headline" The first book about a generation of women writers who challenged the world. Feature Celia is a multi-million-copy bestselling author Details ISBN1448217504 Author Celia Brayfield Short Title Rebel Writers: the Accidental Feminists Pages 272 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1448217504 ISBN-13 9781448217502 Format Paperback DEWEY 820.9928709045 Imprint Bloomsbury Caravel Publication Date 2021-07-22 UK Release Date 2021-07-22 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2021-07-22 Illustrations 8pp B&W Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Subtitle Shelagh Delaney • Edna OBrien • Lynne Reid Banks • Charlotte Bingham • Nell Dunn • Virginia Ironside • Margaret Forster Audience General AU Release Date 2021-11-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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ISBN-13: 9781448217502
Book Title: Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists: Shelagh Delaney * Edna O'Brien * Lynne Reid Banks * Charlotte Bingham * Nell Dunn * Virginia Ironside * Margaret Forster
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Item Height: 198 mm
Subject: Zoology
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 208 g
Subject Area: Gender Issues
Author: Celia Brayfield
Item Width: 129 mm
Format: Paperback
