Ladies of Influence: Women of the Elite in Interwar Britain (Allen Lane History S.) - Tapa dura

Little known stories of seven extraordinary women who through class, marriage and money had a huge impact on Britain and the Empire between the wars. Women such as Lucy Baldwin who waged a ceaseless campaign to save women from unnecessary pain in childbirth and Stella, Marchioness of Reading who set up the Women's Vountary Service which did such invalable work during WW2. Glamorous eccentric Nancy Cunard escaped to Paris where she set up The Hours Press and first published Samuel Beckett and governor's wife, Lady Joan Grigg, who set up the first Kenyan maternity services. All heroic women with wonderful stories to tell.

A. Susan Williams is a lecturer in the History and Philosophy Department of the Institute of Education, London University. As well as being joint editor of the award-winning Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women she has also written a number of books including Women & Childbirth in the Twentieth Century (1997).