Joining the Dots: A Woman In Her Time. Juliet Gardiner
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Название: Joining the Dots: A Woman In Her Time

Автор: Juliet Gardiner

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары

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isbn: 9780007489183

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       Copyright

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2017

      Copyright © Juliet Gardiner 2017

      Cover photograph by Dave Taylor

      Cover design by Jack Smyth

      Extract from ‘Having a Baby’ from Collected Poems by Allan Ahlberg (Puffin, 2008). Copyright © Allan Ahlberg, 2008. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Random House UK.

      ‘Diana’ Words and Music by Paul Anka © 1957, reproduced by permission from Pamco Music Inc/EMI Music Publishing Ltd, London W1F 9LD.

      Juliet Gardiner asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780007489190

      Ebook Edition © August 2017 ISBN: 9780007489183

      Version: 2018-05-17

       Dedication

      For Rudi and Sammy

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

      

      

       Prologue

      

      

       1. A War Baby

       2. Second-Hand Baby

       3. An Education (of Sorts)

       4. Old Town Blues

       5. Expectations

       6. Spanland

       7. Making a Historian

       8. A Political Wife

       9. Putting Asunder

       10. A Working Woman

      

      

       Epilogue

       Acknowledgements

       Picture Section

      

      

       Also by Juliet Gardiner

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

       Prologue

      A young woman wearing a navy-blue duffel coat and bottle-green stockings stood shivering in the vaulted booking hall of Bristol Temple Meads station looking uncertainly around her. It was 1 January 1960 and the woman was me. I was sixteen years old, and, using the money I had earned from delivering letters for the Post Office during the holidays (£8 5s.) and writing ‘amusing’ anecdotes to the letters page of Woman’s Realm, plus a Christmas present of a £2 postal order, I had run away from home.

      It was the start of a decade that was to be momentous in changing Britain’s history, politically, economically, socially and culturally. Although of course I could not have foreseen that, nevertheless it seemed a suitably significant date on which to start a new life; to leave behind the pebble-dashed house in the home counties, СКАЧАТЬ