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Item Details
| Title:
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FIRSTS
LIVEWIRE BOOK OF BRITISH WOMEN ACHIEVERS |
| By: |
Kate Murphy (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£5.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0704349175 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780704349179 |
| Publisher: |
THE WOMEN'S PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
7 March, 1998 |
| Edition: |
Revised edition |
| Pages: |
180 |
| Description: |
Revised and updated, this edition charts 2000 years of women's achievement in the UK. It is a revealing and contemporary collection of British groundbreakers: women pirates, engineers, robbers, actresses, doctors, dentists, politicians, meteorologists, war correspondents and many more. |
| Synopsis: |
We all know that Margaret Thatcher was Britain's first female Prime Minister, but who was the first woman: accused of witchcraft?; awarded the Order of Merit?; elected a member of the House of Commons?; convicted of murder? And did you know that it was a woman who: wrote the first known autobiography in the English language?; introduced the first Marriage and Divorce Act into Parliament?; invented overarm bowling? Revised and updated, this edition charts 2000 years of women's achievement in the UK. It is a revealing and contemporary collection of British groundbreakers: women pirates, engineers, robbers, actresses, doctors, dentists, politicians, meteorologists, war correspondents and many more. |
| Illustrations: |
illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Livewire Books for Teenagers |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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