Feminist Criticism – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

What’s Sex Got to Do with It?

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:11 +0000

How better than to mark the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s book on human evolution than by challenging his theory with an updated version which instead places the female species at the centre of the theory. Sexual selection may have created us, but by refusing to take a good hard look at ourselves and our impact on the planet, we may be granting natural selection the power to eliminate us.

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Princess Olga

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:04 +0000

This is very much a human interest story, told with humour by a down to earth woman struggling to make ends meet in the 21st century. The upkeep of her historical childhood home, Provender House, in the depths of the English countryside, is indeed a constant daily battle for this modern-day princess. Princess Olga Romanoff, is the daughter of the eldest nephew of Tsar Nicholas II…

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Pamela Hansford Johnson

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:04 +0000

Finalist in 2014-15 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE for Non-Fiction Pamela Hansford Johnson’s first novel, This Bed Thy Centre, published in 1935 when she was 22 and had no literary contacts to ease her path, was a succès de scandale. On the publication of her second, John Brophy wrote in Time and Tide: ‘I have no doubt at all that Miss Hansford Johnson is already one of the most gifted and interesting of…

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The Hidden Girl

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:55 +0000

Finalist in the PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE SUMMER COLLECTION 2019 for Non-fiction and First Time Author. This book charts the author’s long journey of healing from the trauma caused by having to go into hiding as a child and having to deny that she was Jewish. It is not intended as an autobiography or a clinical paper on the healing process but as an account of a very personal inner journey.

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Lady Sue Ryder of Warsaw

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:50 +0000

Finalist in the People’s book Prize Winter Collection for Non-Fiction. There are numerous Sue Ryder charity shops throughout the UK, but few shoppers know much about their founder. Miss Ryder was a determined and philanthropic woman who created homes for those who were damaged by trauma and injury experienced during the Second World War. She was born into a privileged family and, when only 16…

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What If It Were You?

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:48 +0000

Chosen for Summer 2019 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Fiction. Foreword by Fiyaz Mughal OBE, founder of ‘Tell MAMA’, a national faith hate crime reporting project. An extract from Elizabeth’s interview with Phoebe Aurelia on Croydon FM:. “[In a town in the US] all the Jewish community stand outside one of the mosques with plaques like ‘we’re here for you’ showing that support…

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