Janey and Me: Growing up with my Mother - Rilegato

Ironside, Virginia

 
9781841157504: Janey and Me: Growing up with my Mother
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ISBN 10: 1841157503 ISBN 13: 9781841157504
Casa editrice: Fourth Estate, 2003

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Is it every woman’s fate to turn into her mother? This is renowned writer and journalist Virginia Ironside’s poignant and blackly funny memoir of life with fashion professor and media icon Janey Ironside, for whom, even years after her death, Virginia continues to be mistaken.

Stylish, beautiful and self-loathing, Janey Ironside was to lead a cultural revolution. In 1956 she became Professor of Fashion at the Royal College of Art, then an extraordinary appointment for a young mother. Discovering and promoting designers like Ossie Clark and Bill Gibb, she changed the way people dressed around the world and herself became a fashion icon. Yet the qualities that made her great – wit, talent and drive – did not bring happiness to either her or her family.

Having grown up in colonial India, Janey suffered a painful childhood separation from her parents. She married dashing artist Christopher Ironside, but eking out wartime rations ill-suited a woman whose idea of divine punishment was 'to spend eternity washing up.' Dress-making soon filled the void, while her daughter Virginia endured a string of au pairs, embarrassing outfits and acute loneliness.

As Virginia fought to be her own person, plunging into the swing of the 'sixties as a rock journalist, she was caught between a father she adored and a mother bent on self-destruction. Now a renowned writer, she has drawn a startling portrait of a gifted woman in a time of extraordinary change. Blackly comic, beautifully written and deeply moving, JANEY AND ME reflects the universal struggle to emerge from our parents' shadow.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Virginia Ironside has been a journalist ever since her first book came out in 1964, when she was 20. Since then she has written over ten more books and, for the last thirty years, been an agony aunt for Woman, the Sunday Mirror and, now, the Independent. She has one son and lives in London.

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Editore
Fourth Estate
Data di pubblicazione
2003
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1841157503
ISBN 13 
9781841157504
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
320
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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9781841157511: Janey and Me: Growing up with my Mother

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ISBN 10:  1841157511 ISBN 13:  9781841157511
Casa editrice: Harper Perennial, 2004
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