Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties

by Rachel Cooke

Book Overview

An exuberant group biography--a splendidly various collection of 'brief lives' written with both gusto and sensitivity (The Guardian)--that follows ten women in 1950s Britain whose pioneering lives paved the way for feminism and laid the foundation of modern women's success.

In Her Brilliant Career, Rachel Cooke goes back in time to offer an entertaining and iconoclastic look at ten women in the 1950s--pioneers whose professional careers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062333860
• ISBN13: 9780062333865
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"