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THURSDAY TRAILBLAZER: J K Rowling
THURSDAY TRAILBLAZER: J K Rowling
30 October 2008
It feels bizarre that we have never mentioned J K Rowling before as a trailblazer, but that is maybe because she never seems to be out of the headlines. Even now, with Harry Potter finished, she is still newsworthy because of The Tales of Beedle the Bard which  More
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THURSDAY TRAILBLAZER: Beatrix Potter
THURSDAY TRAILBLAZER: Beatrix Potter
31 July 2008
This week marked the birthday of Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866), so I thought I'd take a look at the woman who has had such a big impact on children's lives. Born Helen Beatrix Potter in Kensington, London, to parents that were rich thanks to an inheritence fro  More
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THURSDAY TRAILBLAZER: Alice Walker
THURSDAY TRAILBLAZER: Alice Walker
3 July 2008
Alice Walker describes herself as an author, a feminist and a womanist, a term she started because "black women experienced a different and more intense kind of oppression than did white women". Born is Georgia in 1944, Alice went on the become an active member  More
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THURSDAY TRAILBLAZER: Doris Lessing
THURSDAY TRAILBLAZER: Doris Lessing
26 June 2008
Goodness, there is so much information on Doris Lessing swimming about I'm having a hard time condensing it. To make things simple I'll begin at the beginning. Doris was born in Persia (now Iran) in 1919 to British parents. When she was six they moved to South  More
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THURSDAY TRAILBLAZER: Sarah Waters
THURSDAY TRAILBLAZER: Sarah Waters
12 June 2008
Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch, has won an array of awards, including South Bank Award for Literature, Author of the Year at the British Book Awards, the Betty Trask Award and shortlisted for the Booker and  More
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THURSDAY TRAILBLAZER: Maeve Binchy
THURSDAY TRAILBLAZER: Maeve Binchy
5 June 2008
Since picking up a battered copy of Light a Penny Candle as a teenager, I have been a huge fan of Maeve Binchy. I don't know if it was the gentle way in which she wrote, the fascinating characters or just her ability to write a gripping story that had me hooked,  More
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THURSDAY TRAILBLAZER: Stella Gibbons
THURSDAY TRAILBLAZER: Stella Gibbons
17 April 2008
Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm often appears on top ten lists and it also features in my teetering to-be-read pile. It's a parody of the pessimisitic rural novel (typified by Thomas Hardy), and features a feisty, melodramatic family called...  More
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