Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple by Joseph, Jenny

Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781788168182)

Vendor: Jenny Joseph
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple by Joseph, Jenny

Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

$8.95
Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple by Joseph, Jenny

Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

$8.95
Format: Hardcover
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Voted Britain's favourite poem in 1996, 'Warning', written in 1961, is known and loved the world over. Its declaration of defiance, so vividly and cleverly expressed, appeals to the rebel in all of us as we secretly yearn to throw off the shackles of propriety and enjoy the gleeful freedom of cocking a snook at the rest of the world.

In the poem's respectable middle-aged woman, as she indulges in her fantasy of the gabby old crone with her outrageous clothes and dotty behaviour, Jenny Joseph has created a character whose thoughts have been quoted at conferences and funerals, used to cheer up sick friends, remembered with pleasure by children and adults alike. Found in schoolbooks from Alaska to Singapore, the poem has been stitched, stamped, quilted, set to music, printed on cards, written on cakes and made into films.

Now, for the first time, 'Warning' appears as an illustrated book with drawings by Pythia Ashton-Jewell specially designed to suit its unique character.

Author: Jenny Joseph
ISBN-10: 1788168186
ISBN-13: 9781788168182
Publisher: Ips - Profile Books
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2022
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 6.10h x 4.50w x 0.30d
By Jenny Joseph
By Jenny Joseph
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Jenny Joseph has been writing poetry since childhood and was first published in the 1950s by John Lehmann. Her first published collection, The Unlooked-for Season, won her a Cholmondeley Award and her prose and verse narrative, Persephone, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 1995 she was awarded a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship. In 2006 her poem 'Warning' was voted Britain's favourite modern poem. She has three grown-up children and lives in Gloucestershire.

Pythia Ashton-Jewell has been a printer and opera-singer and is reading for a degree in Music while pursuing her career as writer and illustrator, mainly of children's books. She lives in London.

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