Word: englishwoman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Margaret Drabble is a presumably emancipated young Englishwoman in a presumably emancipated world. But her stories-at 30, she has written five brilliantly uneven novels-return atavistically to the primal theme. The difference is, society no longer really punishes the girls who dare to. They do the job themselves, wryly, with masochistic lashes of good old late-20th-century guilt...
...year-old girl,who had been gang-raped by horse guardsmen, then invited the Attorney General of England to prosecute him. After 40 minutes' deliberation, the jury acquitted Bourne-and the "Bourne rule" stood for 30 years. Its effect was to make abortion available to any Englishwoman who was articulate and well-off enough to persuade doctors to certify, by a liberal interpretation of the law, that continuation of her pregnancy would endanger her life. Inevitably, there were uncounted and uncountable illegal, back-street abortions for the less privileged, with the danger of serious illness or death from infection...
...Sabrina Fair) and Herb Gardner (A Thousand Clowns). Krasna's Blue Hour is a Manhattan love fable. Taylor's Avanti details a triangle between an Englishwoman, an American man and the Italian bureaucracy...
Died. Randy Turpin, 37, prizefighter son of a white Englishwoman and a British Guianan merchant seaman, who briefly tasted fame in 1951 by winning the middleweight crown from an overconfident and undertrained Sugar Ray Robinson only to lose the title two months later in a rematch, after which Turpin wound up wrestling for $30 a night; by his own hand (pistol); in Leamington Spa, England...
Lady Who? A reasonable question, for the world has almost forgotten the greatest Englishwoman of the 18th century. Her beauty was the cynosure, her wit the terror, her private life the puzzlement of Hanoverian London. She was the confidante of one Prime Minister (Walpole) and the mother-in-law of another (Bute). She introduced smallpox vaccination to Europe. She rivaled Pope as a satiric versifier, dazzled Addison and Steele as an essayist. Above all she was acclaimed, by Dr. Johnson himself, as the greatest of the great letter writers of 18th century England...