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    My Life And I
    The Voluble Topsy: A young lady's chatter about love, politics and war, 1928-1947
    Business as Usual
    Ebook series3 titles

    Handheld Comic Classics Series

    By Jane Oliver, Betty Bendell, A.P. Herbert and Elizabeth Von Arnim

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    In the late 1920s Topsy is a girl about town, a society deb, a dashing flapper. She writes breathless, exuberant letters to her best friend Trix about her life, her parties, her intrigues, and the men in her life. One particular man draws her into politics, and to Topsy’s amazement, she is elected as a member of Parliament. Topsy’s extensive social life, her adventures in and out of the House of Commons (and her audacious attempts to legislate for the Enjoyment of the People), and her wartime activity as the mother of twins, were recorded faithfully by the great comic writer A P Herbert. The Trials of Topsy (1928), Topsy MP (1929) and Topsy Turvy (1947) are republished in one volume for the delight and admiration of a new generation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHandheld Classics
    Release dateSep 16, 2019
    My Life And I
    The Voluble Topsy: A young lady's chatter about love, politics and war, 1928-1947
    Business as Usual

    Titles in the series (3)

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      Business as Usual
      Business as Usual

      Business as Usual

      Jane Oliver
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      4/5 - 2 ratings

      This classic illustrated novel in letters sure to delight fans of Jane Austen and Winifred Watson. Hilary Fane is an Edinburgh girl fresh out of university who is determined to support herself by her own earnings in London for a year, despite the mutterings of her surgeon fiancé. After a nervous beginning looking for a job while her savings rapidly diminish, she finds work as a typist in the London department store of Everyman's (a very thin disguise for Selfridges), and rises rapidly through the ranks to work in the library, where she has to enforce modernizing systems on her entrenched and frosty colleagues. Business as Usual is charming, intelligent, heart-warming, funny, and entertaining. It’s deeply interesting as a record of the history of shopping in the 1930s, and fascinating for its unflinching descriptions of social conditions, poverty and illegitimacy.

      This classic illustrated novel in letters sure to delight fans of Jane Austen and Winifred Watson. Hilary Fane is an Edinburgh girl fresh out of university who is determined to support herself by her own earnings in London for a year, despite the mutterings of her surgeon fiancé. After a nervous beginning looking for a job while her savings rapidly diminish, she finds work as a typist in the London department store of Everyman's (a very thin disguise for Selfridges), and rises rapidly through the ranks to work in the library, where she has to enforce modernizing systems on her entrenched and frosty colleagues. Business as Usual is charming, intelligent, heart-warming, funny, and entertaining. It’s deeply interesting as a record of the history of shopping in the 1930s, and fascinating for its unflinching descriptions of social conditions, poverty and illegitimacy.

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      My Life And I
      My Life And I

      My Life And I

      Betty Bendell
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      This collection of the best of Betty Bendell, a leading magazine columnist for the UK edition of Good Housekeeping and other magazines, will delight and amuse. From ‘My dollyrocking days are over’ (1966) to her last column for GH in 1980, these 87 magazine columns have been chosen for their glorious humour, their social history and absolute embeddedness in British life in the late 1960s to 1980. Betty recorded her era from the perspective of a mother and a wife at home, in the school playground, at the parties, in the garden, on holiday, in the shops, and queuing at the supermarket, speculating wildly about the lives of her friends and neighbours.

      This collection of the best of Betty Bendell, a leading magazine columnist for the UK edition of Good Housekeeping and other magazines, will delight and amuse. From ‘My dollyrocking days are over’ (1966) to her last column for GH in 1980, these 87 magazine columns have been chosen for their glorious humour, their social history and absolute embeddedness in British life in the late 1960s to 1980. Betty recorded her era from the perspective of a mother and a wife at home, in the school playground, at the parties, in the garden, on holiday, in the shops, and queuing at the supermarket, speculating wildly about the lives of her friends and neighbours.

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      The Voluble Topsy: A young lady's chatter about love, politics and war, 1928-1947
      The Voluble Topsy: A young lady's chatter about love, politics and war, 1928-1947

      The Voluble Topsy: A young lady's chatter about love, politics and war, 1928-1947

      A.P. Herbert
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      In the late 1920s Topsy is a girl about town, a society deb, a dashing flapper. She writes breathless, exuberant letters to her best friend Trix about her life, her parties, her intrigues, and the men in her life. One particular man draws her into politics, and to Topsy’s amazement, she is elected as a member of Parliament. Topsy’s extensive social life, her adventures in and out of the House of Commons (and her audacious attempts to legislate for the Enjoyment of the People), and her wartime activity as the mother of twins, were recorded faithfully by the great comic writer A P Herbert. The Trials of Topsy (1928), Topsy MP (1929) and Topsy Turvy (1947) are republished in one volume for the delight and admiration of a new generation.

      In the late 1920s Topsy is a girl about town, a society deb, a dashing flapper. She writes breathless, exuberant letters to her best friend Trix about her life, her parties, her intrigues, and the men in her life. One particular man draws her into politics, and to Topsy’s amazement, she is elected as a member of Parliament. Topsy’s extensive social life, her adventures in and out of the House of Commons (and her audacious attempts to legislate for the Enjoyment of the People), and her wartime activity as the mother of twins, were recorded faithfully by the great comic writer A P Herbert. The Trials of Topsy (1928), Topsy MP (1929) and Topsy Turvy (1947) are republished in one volume for the delight and admiration of a new generation.

    Author

    Jane Oliver

    Jane Oliver was the penname of Helen Evans (1903-1970). Formerly Clemence Dane’s secretary, she developed a writing career, and wrote many successful novels with Ann Stafford, the penname of Anne Pedler. Business as Usual was their first joint novel. Jane became a pilot and married the author John Llewelyn Rhys, who was killed in the war. She founded the Llewelyn Rhys Prize in his memory. She later lived in Hampshire near Anne Pedler and cared for her in her illness.

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