The volume is divided into two parts. The first, The Adoption Papers, uses three distinct typefaces to distinguish the poem's three speakers: a daughter, her adoptive mother, and her birth mother. Based on JK
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Marina Warner
The book encompasses an extensive range of women's images that throughout history have appeared in English and European art and architecture. These representations include the Statue of Liberty, Hildegarde of Bingen
's Sapientia, Margaret Thatcher
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Sue Townsend
This book of social history, which cites statistics to chart the decline of welfare provision during Margaret Thatcher
's prime ministership, is also full of personal witness: stories from Townsend's own life and the lives...