Jennie Lee A Life |
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| Author:
| Hollis, Patricia |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-821580-6 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1997 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $125.00 |
Book Description:
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Jennie Lee, the beautiful and passionate daughter of a Scottish miner, had a remarkable life, first as one of the earliest woman MPs and a fierce political dissenter, and then as wife of Aneurin Bevan, supporting him through the trials of founding the NHS, and the Labour feuds of the 1950s. After Nye's death, Harold Wilson made Jennie the first Minister for the Arts and, with his support, she founded the Open University. This biography tells the moving and intimate story of a...
More DescriptionJennie Lee, the beautiful and passionate daughter of a Scottish miner, had a remarkable life, first as one of the earliest woman MPs and a fierce political dissenter, and then as wife of Aneurin Bevan, supporting him through the trials of founding the NHS, and the Labour feuds of the 1950s. After Nye's death, Harold Wilson made Jennie the first Minister for the Arts and, with his support, she founded the Open University. This biography tells the moving and intimate story of a fascinating woman: widely admired, loved more often than she was liked, and impossible to ignore.