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In 1950s Britain, marriage was the ultimate goal for women; even if you did work you were expected to ditch your job the moment the ring was on your finger, writes YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM.
Andrew Motion Something old made new: The Iliad in Emily Wilson’s muscular and moving new translation, the first by a woman, is truly what it claims to be – a version for our time (Norton, £30). And something new made immediate: Hannah Sullivan’s second collection of poems, Was It For This (Faber, £12.99), ambitiously extends
Ysenda Maxtone Graham says as a child she 'dreaded' long car journeys, but after enjoying an idyllic self-drive adventure through Europe, she's now a convert.
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Telegraph: Even by the 1970s, women's career horizons were remarkably limited.
Accounts of women’s working lives from the 1950s onwards highlight the upper classes and the eccentric. It’s wonderfully mad, but also irritating