- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: John Murray; New edition edition (7 Sep 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0719563011
- ISBN-13: 978-0719563010
- Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 2.2 x 19.7 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 626,618 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A glorious compilation, with enough material for 100 biographies' -- Sue Baker, Publishing News 20050715 'I gleaned as much fun from the wit and style of the writing as I did from the lives of the subjects' -- The Spectator 20050917 'The collection salutes the spirit of these heroines, trailblazers, adventuresses and battleaxes, and captures their inspiring stories' -- Daily Telegraph (Telegraph books direct advert) 20050903 'If obituaries are the first draft of biography, there are many absorbing lives here ! neat and spicy' -- Joan Bakewell, New Statesman 20050926 'Two outstanding talents... Celebrates 93 astounding 20th-century lives' -- Country Life 20050922 'The joy of this book is in finding out how strange our fellow creatures can be, how admirable, how foolish, how inspiring' -- The Herald 20050924 'A collection of...extraordinary lives. Would that we could all be so memorable once dead' -- Beryl Bainbridge, Mail on Sunday 20051211 'Fascinating' -- The Week 20051008 ' This book celebrates both doughty lives and less bland times' -- Jeremy Jehu, Daily Telegraph 20051008 'Chin Up, Girls! provide[s] fond memories of the departed, while at the same time emphasising what joy an eventful life can be' -- Birmingham Sunday Mercury 20051008 'Wonderful bedside reading' -- Tom Boncza-Tomaszewski, Independent on Sunday 20051008
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From the self-styled 'Queen of Soho' who sued BA, claiming to have been bitten on the bottom by a flea, to the butcher's daughter from Oldham who performed topless as 'the world's strongest woman' before becoming becoming the mistress of a peer whom she met while living in a Pyrennean mountain hut, this is a celebration of the women who refused to fulfil society's expectations. Their company includes the woman who survived four months adrift in a dinghy in the Pacific and the woman who played professional polo disguised as a man for fifteen years, as well as the inimitable Dame Barbara Cartland and Fanny Cradock. And there are over one hundred more. This is the first time that the Daily Telegraph has dedicated a book to women's stories; very few of the women featured were 'celebrities', yet their stories represent a century of progress and change, capturing the spirit of those who came of age between Emancipation and the Equal Opportunities Act, whether high life or low life, pioneers or bluestockings. Taking its title from the inspiring lines of a matron whose nurses faced a WWII firing squad, this is a fascinating portrayal of unforgettable and extraordinary characters united by their refusal to accept society's constraints.
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