12 Saturday Sep 2009
Posted in Brighton, History, Periodicals, Witchcraft
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HerStoria is a new quarterly magazine, launched in Liverpool this February. Its byline is ‘history that puts women in their place’. Women’s role in history has sometimes been overlooked, though the same could also be said for other groups such as the working class and non-whites. Focussing on their stories helps us to understand the past as experienced by society at large, and not only through the narrow perspective of ruling elites. Continue reading
04 Friday Sep 2009
Trades Of The Flesh is Faye L. Booth’s second novel – her first, Cover The Mirrors, was published in 2007. Both books are set in late 19th century Preston, and feature young, working-class women thriving in unconventional ways. Cover The Mirrors’ Molly Pinner worked as a medium, and Trades’ Lydia Ketch is a prostitute. Booth allows readers to reconsider existing views of Victorian morality, and shows how ordinary women negotiated degrees of independence in unlikely settings. Continue reading
22 Saturday Aug 2009
Death Was In The Picture is the second in Linda L. Richards’ series of mysteries, set in Depression-era Los Angeles and featuring Kitty Pangborn, a debutante fallen on tough times and now working as secretary to an alcoholic private eye, Dexter J. Theroux. Continue reading
19 Wednesday Aug 2009
Posted in Art and Photography, Books, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction, Periodicals
Life was one of the most popular American magazines of the 20th century, with a strong emphasis on photojournalism. It lives on today as an online photo archive, and occasionally publishes special editions in honour of iconic Americans. During the 1950s and 60s, one of their favourite cover stars was none other than Marilyn Monroe, and this tribute is long overdue. Continue reading
25 Saturday Jul 2009
Posted in Books, Marilyn Monroe, Updates
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By Eve Arnold, 1955
My review of David Marshall‘s speculative novel, Life Among The Cannibals: The Life and Times of Marilyn Monroe 1962-2003, appears in Issue 9 of Mad About Marilyn, the UK-based fan club and magazine. This latest edition also features the famous 1956 interview that Marilyn gave to Earl Wilson from her hotel suite, a retrospective on Jack Cardiff, and a closer look at those plastic surgery rumours.
Tara Hanks 
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