{"product_id":"9781471161346","title":"The Century Girls : The Final Word from the Women Who've Lived the Past Hundred Years of British History","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Dunlop, Tessa, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 07\/03\/2019,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 368 pages, 1 x 16pp colour,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Biography: historical political \u0026amp; military, Gender studies: women\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781471161346\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA celebration of the one-hundred years since British women got the vote, told, in their own voices, by six centenarians: Helena, Olive, Edna, Joyce, Ann and Phyllis - The Century Girls In 2018 Britain celebrates the centenary of some women getting the vote. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe intervening ten decades have witnessed staggering change, and The Century Girls features six women born in 1918 or before who haven't just witnessed that change, they've lived it. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEmpire shrank, war came and went, and modern society demanded continual readjustment... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe Century Girls lasted the course, and this book weaves together their lifetime's adventures - what they were taught, how they were treated, who they loved, what they did and where they are now. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith stories that are intimately knitted into the history of the British Isles, this is a time-travel epic featuring our oldest, most precious national treasures. Edna, 102, was a domestic servant born in Lincolnshire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHelena is 101 years old and the eldest of eight born into a Welsh farming family. Olive, 102, began life as a child of empire in British Guiana and was one of the first women to migrate to London after the war. There's Ann, a 103-year-London bohemian; 100-year-old Phyllis, daughter of the British Raj, who has called Edinburgh home for nearly eighty years; and finally 'young' Joyce - a 99-year-old Cambridge classicist who's still at work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is through the prism of these women's very long lives that The Century Girls provides a deeply personal account of British history over the past one hundred years. Their story is our story too.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35022629437593,"sku":"9781471161346","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781471161346.jpg?v=1602537140","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781471161346","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}