Jennie Lee
eBook - ePub

Jennie Lee

A Life

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eBook - ePub

Jennie Lee

A Life

About this book

First published in 1997, Patricia Hollis's biography of the pioneering Labour MP Jennie Lee (1904-1988) won both the Wolfson History Prize and the Orwell Prize. It is the definitive study of this remarkable woman, her stormy political career, and her marriage to Aneurin Bevan. In a new preface to this edition Hollis adds insights into Lee's life which emerged subsequent to first publication, and also draws on her own experience as a Labour Minister from 1997-2005.

'Lee's lives and loves, passions and drives are beautifully and frankly explored in Patricia Hollis's compelling book.' THES

'Superbly researched, engrossingly written, scrupulously honest.' Gerald Kaufman, Daily Telegraph

'What makes it particularly fascinating is the author's own first-hand knowledge of politics and of the Labour movement.' TLS

'One of the best political biographies of recent years' Alan Watkins, New Statesman

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9780571320912
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Plates
  7. Preface to the 2014 Edition
  8. Preface to the First Edition
  9. 1: Cowdenbeath Child
  10. 2: North Lanark
  11. 3: Frank and Nye
  12. 4: Jennie’s War
  13. 5: 1945 and MP for Cannock
  14. 6: The Bevanite Struggles
  15. 7: Life with Nye
  16. 8: A Wreath for Nye
  17. 9: Minister for the Arts: ā€˜Money, Policy, Silence’
  18. 10: University of the Air
  19. 11: The Open University
  20. 12: Jennie the Minister: in Public and in Private
  21. 13: Twilight Years
  22. Selected Bibliography
  23. Index
  24. Plates
  25. Copyright