Warning: When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

Author:   Jenny Joseph ,  Pythia Ashton-Jewell (Illustrator)
Publisher:   Profile Books Ltd
Edition:   Main
ISBN:  

9780285634114


Pages:   32
Publication Date:   06 November 1997
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Author:   Jenny Joseph ,  Pythia Ashton-Jewell (Illustrator)
Publisher:   Profile Books Ltd
Imprint:   Souvenir Press Ltd
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Width: 12.00cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 15.90cm
Weight:   0.115kg
ISBN:  

9780285634114


ISBN 10:   0285634119
Pages:   32
Publication Date:   06 November 1997
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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A poem that was to inspire two generations of women to contemplate behaving badly. * Mail on Sunday * The most popular poem in Britain. * The Guardian * Continues to inspire with its humour... speaks to the devil in us all... Utterly charming and uplifting. * Good Book Guide *


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Jenny Joseph has been writing poetry since childhood and was first published in the 1950s by John Lehmann. Her first published collection, The Unlooked-for Season, won her a Cholmondeley Award and her prose and verse narrative, Persephone, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 1995 she was awarded a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship. In 2006 her poem 'Warning' was voted Britain's favourite modern poem. She has three grown-up children and lives in Gloucestershire. Pythia Ashton-Jewell has been a printer and opera-singer and is reading for a degree in Music while pursuing her career as writer and illustrator, mainly of children's books. She lives in London.

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