Helena Wojtczak has done it again, another brilliant piece of work! ...
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a lady who proved the earth was flat and two who circumnavigated it! • a gardener with terrapins in her bra • a white woman who led a protest march of twenty thousand black Africans • a female colonel who married a woman • the inventor of the A-Z • a Gaiety Girl who became an MP • a survivor of the Titanic disaster • a woman who climbed and perished on K2 • an heiress who gave away £12million • the first female doctor, surgeon, prison governor, prison inspector, ordained minister • the founders of the Women's Police Service; Girton College; Norland nannies • suffragettes who torched an MP's house, sailed over Westminster in a balloon; died for the cause • the first female pilot to fly Halifax bombers • the wealthiest prostitute in London • the first celebrity ballroom dancer; the first TV chef • a double bigamist • the first Englishwoman to swim the Channel • a rally driver who beat Stirling Moss • a beautiful actress from whose slipper men drank champagne • the pioneer of allotments • The Lady of the Nuggets; the Queen of Chess; the Silver Lady; the Queen of the Witches • a harpsichordist with a ménage à cinq • writers of books deemed 'obscene' and 'grossly immoral' • the richest working woman in the world • an instigator of a hundred court cases • the photographer who was a Russian spy • Siamese Twin entertainers • a secretary to six British Prime Ministers • Jim's Wife - who was married to Clement • a competitor in thirteen Wimbledon finals • a countess who founded sixty chapels • a nun who secretly designed Royal Doulton china • a titled lady who bred silkworms • the first heroines to receive the Military Medal and Lloyd's Medal for Bravery at Sea.
by award-winning author
Helena Wojtczak
- Hardback (ppc)
- Publication date: 1 June 2008
- ISBN 978-1904-109-150
- Price £19.99
- 580 women
- 170 towns
- 336 pages, of which 32 pages are gloss plates containing 63 photos
- 189 illustrations within the text
- Available from every bookshop in the UK
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Alciston Aldrington Aldwick Alfriston Amberley Angmering Arundel Balcombe Barcombe Battle Beauport Beddingham Bexhill Bignor Park Blackboys Bognor Regis Bolney Bosham Brede Brightling Brighton Burgess Hill Burpham Burwash Buxted Catsfield Chailey Chelwood Gate Chichester Chiddingly Clayton Climping Cocking Colgate Coleman's Hatch Coneyhurst Crawley Crawleydown Crowborough Cuckfield Danehill Ditchling Duncton Durrington Easebourne East Dean East Grinstead East Hoathly East Preston Eastbourne Ewhurst Fairlight Fairwarp Falmer Faygate Felcourt Felpham Fernhurst Firle Fittleworth ForestRow Framfield Frant Friston Furners Green Glynde Glyndebourne Goodwood Graffham Greatham Groombridge Hadlow Down Hailsham Hartfield Hassocks Hastings Haywards Heath Heathfield Henfield Heyshott High Salvington Horsham Horsted Keynes Houghton Hove Hurst Green Iping Keymer Kingsley Green Lancing Laughton Lewes Little Common Littlehampton Lodsworth Lower Beeding Madehurst Maresfield Mark Cross Mayfield Midhurst Milland Muddles Green Netherfield Newhaven Newick Newtimber Northiam Nutbourne Nutley Ovingdean Partridge Green Peasmarsh Pendean Pett Petworth Pevensey Polegate Portslade Preston Pulborough Rodmell Rogate Rotherfield Rottingdean Rowfant Rudgwick Rustington Rye St Leonards Salehurst Saltdean Sandhurst Seaford Sedlescombe Selsey Sharpthorne Shermanbury Shoreham-by-Sea Shripney Slindon Slinfold Sompting South Harting South Stoke Southease Southwick Steyning Storrington Stunts Green Sullington Tangmere Telscombe Cliffs Three Bridges Ticehurst Turners Hill Uckfield Upper Hartfield Wadhurst Walberton Warnham Washington West Burton West Chiltington West Grinstead West Hoathly Winchelsea Withyham Woodmancote Worth Worthing
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