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Chin Up, Girls!: A Book of Women's Obituaries from the Daily Telegraph (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: John Murray; New edition edition (7 Sep 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0719563011
  • ISBN-13: 978-0719563010
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 84,628 in Books (See Bestsellers 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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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'A glorious compilation, with enough material for 100 biographies' (Sue Baker, Publishing News 20051008)

‘I gleaned as much fun from the wit and style of the writing as I did from the lives of the subjects’

(The Spectator 20051008)

‘The collection salutes the spirit of these heroines, trailblazers, adventuresses and battleaxes, and captures their inspiring stories’

(Daily Telegraph (Telegraph books direct advert) )

‘If obituaries are the first draft of biography, there are many absorbing lives here … neat and spicy’

(Joan Bakewell, New Statesman )

'Two outstanding talents... Celebrates 93 astounding 20th-century lives'

(Country Life )

'The joy of this book is in finding out how strange our fellow creatures can be, how admirable, how foolish, how inspiring’

(The Herald )

'A collection of...extraordinary lives. Would that we could all be so memorable once dead'

(Beryl Bainbridge, Mail on Sunday )

'Fascinating'

(The Week )

‘ This book celebrates both doughty lives and less bland times’

(Jeremy Jehu, Daily Telegraph )

‘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 )

‘Wonderful bedside reading’

(Tom Boncza-Tomaszewski, Independent on Sunday )
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Book, 15 Sep 2005
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This review is from: Chin Up, Girls!: A Book of Women's Obituaries from the Daily Telegraph (Hardcover)
A compendium of heroic, ground-breaking or occasionally downright barking mad women from the obituaries files of the daily telegraph. What's great about this book is that these are not just famous lives - most of the women in it I had never heard of and was extremely glad to be introduced to. Some of their stories made me laugh aloud while others moved me to tears. An amusing, exciting, uplifting tribute to womanhood. A great book.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A superb and varied collection of women's lives, 19 Sep 2005
By A Customer
This review is from: Chin Up, Girls!: A Book of Women's Obituaries from the Daily Telegraph (Hardcover)
This beautifully and thoughtfully edited selection of women's lives is the perfect gift for any women - or man. There are very few well-known women in the collection which makes for even more fascinating reading - from eccentric aristoctracy to brave and fearless women during war to ordinary people who end up having extraordinary lives.
Every obituary is well written and many are extremely amusing pieces of writing, regardless of the subject. A thoroughly good present in the run up to Christmas.
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4.0 out of 5 stars An Overwhelming Collection of Lives, 19 Aug 2008
By Graceann Macleod "Books Fuel My Life" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chin Up, Girls!: A Book of Women's Obituaries from the Daily Telegraph (Hardcover)
These obituaries of the ladies who defied convention in the last century are truly revelations. Most of the women, with a few notable exceptions, were previously unknown to me, and I ended up filling my bedside notebook with names to research further. Others, like Patricia Highsmith, Barbara Cartland and Eva Gabor, were more familiar, but even they had secrets to divulge in these last big stories of their lives.

The only problem I had with Chin Up, Girls is that reading it in one go, as I did, the people started to run together and I lost track of who was who. This is a book meant to be savored over a long period of time, but don't be stupid like I was; get a copy to keep rather than borrowing it from the library.
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