Jo Willett

The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu

Scientist and Feminist

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Produktbeschreibung

2021 marks the 300th anniversary of Mary Wortley Montagu's successful introduction to Britain of inoculation against the smallpox. She has only to date been the subject of academic study. This will be the first popular biography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 159mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9781526779380
• ISBN-10: 1526779382
• Artikelnr.: 60142226

Autorenporträt

JO HAS BEEN an award-winning TV drama and comedy producer all her working life. Her credits range from the recent MANHUNT, starring Martin Clunes, to BIRDS OF A FEATHER. Her most relevant productions include BRIEF ENCOUNTERS (a fictionalised story of the first women who ran Ann Summers parties in the 1980s), THE MAKING OF A LADY (an adaption of the Frances Hodgson Burnett novel The Making of a Marchioness), BERTIE AND ELIZABETH (telling the story of the Queen Mother's marriage) and the BAFTA-and-RTS Award-Winning A RATHER ENGLISH MARRIAGE (starring Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay and Joanna Lumley, adapted from the novel of the same name by Angela Lambert). She studied English at Queens' College Cambridge and has an MA in Arts Policy. She is married with a daughter, a son and a step-son. She lives in London. www.devoniaroad.co.uk.