Heroines: Women Inspired by Women

Second-Hand (Hardcover)

Excellent condition

Lisa Tuttle interviews twenty successful and influential women of the 1980s to discuss literal, historical and contemporary heroines of their choice.

Their subjects include Florence Nightingale, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Elizabeth I, Helen Suzman, Barbara Castle and others; and the women interviewed included Mary Quant, Katherine Whitehorn, Dorothy Hodgkin, Lynda Myles, Jean Denton, Una Kroll, Judi Dench, Audrey Slaughter, Elizabeth Maconchy, Shirley Williams, Susan Hiller, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Carmen Callil, Germaine Greer, Brenda Dean, Jan Goodwin, Sue Ryder, Helena Kennedy and Marilyn Hacker.