HeyJaredAdvocating for the Ignorant
My biography of Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, Literature for the People, is out now. I mostly write about people, authors and history, late 19th and early 20th century. Now working on a particular group of 20th century women linked to the Labour Party
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It’s Not What You Think (opens the original)
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Friends, mothers, and my old school (opens the original)
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So in this piece I will be writing about two books I’ve just finished reading, by Vera Brittain and Lettice Cooper, and a visit to my old school which has been miraculously transformed…But first I just want to say a generic, massive thank you to the two staples of my reading life at present, Virago Press and Persephone Books. What would we do without them? For most readers they may be interchangeable - publishers of overlooked or forgotten twentieth century books, mostly by women. But founded, b
The 'crackpot curmudgeon' (opens the original)
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It’s exceedingly hot outside again and I have a deadline looming. Also, I have discovered how lovely it is to swim in the sea, even in England, and then just to lie on the sand…so completely new Substacks may have to wait. However, my book progresses: I am delighted to report that I have now managed to track down and talk to all of the surviving children of my Wives of Power, mostly in their seventies and eighties. And without fail, the delighted cry is ‘My mother? you want to write about my mum
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