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Anne Sebba (née Rubinstein) was born in London in 1951.
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The Exiled Collector: William Bankes And the Making of an English Country House by Anne Sebba (2005-08-01)
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Laura Ashley: A Life by Design by Anne Sebba (2011-11-08)
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(Battling for News: Women Reporters from the Risorgimento to Tiananmen Square) Author: Anne Sebba published on (April, 2011)
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Laura Ashley: A Life by Design by Anne Sebba (1990-05-25)
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Laura Ashley a Life By Design
(Biography of a remarkable woman who has made Laura Ashley...)
Biography of a remarkable woman who has made Laura Ashley one of the foremost retailing successes of this century.
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The Exiled Collector: William Bankes And the Making of an English Country House
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On August 30th 1841 William John Bankes, former Tory MP, pioneer Egyptologist and renowned traveller, was caught in compromising circumstances with a guardsman in London's Green Park. Bankes paid a heavy price for his 'moment of madness': less than two weeks later, well aware that sodomy carried the death penalty, he had fled in to exile, eventually settling in Venice. The British Government declared Bankes an outlaw, a vindictive and archaic procedure, which might have enabled them to seize his house - Kingston Lacy in Dorset. It was the vicarious embellishment of that house, although it could be no more than a memory, that was to be his only enduring passion. Based on extensive research from previously undiscovered archives, this is the first ever biography of William Bankes. Brilliantly written and highly readable, The Exiled Collector recounts Bankes' dramatic life story, examines the psychology of collecting, the pain and creativity of exile and affords a revealing insight into the minds of a hypocritical ruling elite in early Victorian Britain.
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Battling for News: The Rise of the Woman Reporter
(Charts the developments of the woman reporter's role, fro...)
Charts the developments of the woman reporter's role, from the 19th century to the present day.
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(Laura Ashley: A Life by Design ) Author: Anne Sebba Apr-2013
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Battling for News: Women Reporters from the Risorgimento to Tiananmen Square by Anne Sebba (2012-01-24)
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Battling for News: Women Reporters from the Risorgimento to Tiananmen Square
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In 1898, Arnold Bennett in his "Journalism for Women: A Practical Guide" asked the question, 'Is there any sexual reason why a woman should be a less accomplished journalist than a man?' and, for the time, bravely answered, 'I can find none'. Anne Sebba, in her introduction, describes her book thus: 'what follows is an account of what many women have witnesses in the last 150 years...It is also an account of the battles women have fought in order to be able to tell these stories...The women in this book have reported much more than just war. They have investigated many a horror of peacetime society from prostitution, drug abuse and sexual deviation to riots, strikes and criminal trials'. From Miss Wreford in Italy at the time of the Risorgimento and Lady Florence Dixie in South Africa during the Boer War to mould-breakers such as Clare Hollingworth, Virginia Cowles and Martha Gellhorn in the 1930s to Kate Adie in Yugoslavia and Tienanmen Square in the 1990s, Anne Sebba recounts the exciting development of the woman reporter. '"Battling for News" is an important book because it contradicts the myths that is it harder for women to work in difficult situations; that women only report the hospitals and orphanages side of war; that it is easier to get hired in the first place' - Janine di Giovanni, "Sunday Times". 'Anne Sebba's admirable book...is well researched and likely to interest many readers who are neither women nor journalists. For one thing, her journalists stand in their own right not merely in opposition to a man's world. For another, like their male counterparts, they have pursued careers that catch the light of history. This is good material for anyone interested in the events and public debates of the last 150 years' - Jeremy Harding, "London Review of Books". 'Anne Sebba offers convincing answers without resorting to polemic...Sebba presents a coherent picture of women fighting not only for their own rights but for the rights of newspaper readers' - Roy Greenslade, "The Guardian".
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Laura Ashley: A Life by Design (By: Anne Sebba) published: April, 2013
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Laura Ashley: A Life by Design by Sebba, Anne (1991) Paperback
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Battling for News: The Rise of the Woman Reporter by Anne Sebba (1995-03-03)
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Margot Fonteyn (Blackbird books)
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(Laura Ashley: A Life by Design ) Author: Anne Sebba May-2011
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Laura Ashley: A Life by Design
('It is an extraordinary story' - Sunday Times. The name '...)
'It is an extraordinary story' - Sunday Times. The name 'Laura Ashley' is an international byword for the classic English countrywoman living in domestic bliss. But what was Laura Ashley the woman really like, behind the facade of the family-based company that not only used her name, but was moulded on her personal image? Anne Sebba describes Laura the astute business woman with her sure instinct for forecasting trends, her canny feel for colour and fabric and her often brilliant but perfectly simple ideas. She describes Laura the wife and mother: her relationship with Bernard, her sadness at leaving Wales and her family for life on the Continent, her conviction that her place was with her husband. An absorbing biography of this remarkable woman who became one of the leading influences in the twentieth century on British design and marketing. 'This is a moving book. Anne Sebba has written a vivid, true story. She writes with frankness and without frills' - "Sunday Telegraph".
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Anne Sebba
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King"s College London.
Career
She is the author of eight non-fiction books for adults, two biographies for children and several introductions to reprinted classics. She read history at King"s College London (1969-1972) and after a brief spell at the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service in Bush House joined Reuters as a graduate trainee, working in London and Rome, from 1972-1978. She wrote her first book while living in New York and now lives in London.
The letters have led to a reappraisal of the Abdication Crisis.
Sebba’s books have been translated into several languages including French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian and Polish. Since working as a correspondent for Reuters, Sebba has written for The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Spectator, Times Higher Educational Supplement and The Independent, She has been cited as an authority on biography. was reviewed in The Independent, The Telegraph, and The Scotsman, inter alia. was reviewed in The New York Times Sunday Book Review as a "devourable feast of highly spiced history…which acquires the propulsive energy of a thriller as it advances through Wallis"s life." and in The Washington Times as "a delicious new biography… meticulously researched." In 2009 Sebba wrote and presented The Daffodil Maiden on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3.
lieutenant was the story of the pianist Harriet Cohen, who inspired the composer Arnold Bax when she wore a dress adorned with a single daffodil and became his mistress for the next 40 years. Gillian Reynolds described it as "This frank and moving account … beautifully produced." in The Daily Telegraph.
In 2010 she wrote and presented the documentary "Who was Joyce Hatto?" for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4.
In September 2009 Sebba joined the Management Committee of the Society of Authors and since 2012 she has been Chair of the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. She went to Turkey twice as an official observer for Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association for the trial of journalist Asiye Guzel Zeybeck She has served on the judging panel of the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize. and has twice been a judge for the Biographers" Club awards. In 2012, Sebba spoke at the Beijing and Shanghai Literary Festivals and the Sydney Writers" Festival.
Works
book
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Battling for News: Women Reporters from the Risorgimento to Tiananmen Square
(In 1898, Arnold Bennett in his "Journalism for Women: A P...)
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The Exiled Collector: William Bankes And the Making of an English Country House
(On August 30th 1841 William John Bankes, former Tory MP, ...)
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Laura Ashley a Life By Design
(Biography of a remarkable woman who has made Laura Ashley...)
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Battling for News: The Rise of the Woman Reporter
(Charts the developments of the woman reporter's role, fro...)
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Laura Ashley: A Life by Design
('It is an extraordinary story' - Sunday Times. The name '...)
- Battling for news: the rise of the women reporter
- The Exiled Collector: William Bankes And the Making of an English Country House by Anne Sebba (2005-08-01)
- Laura Ashley: A Life by Design by Anne Sebba (2011-11-08)
- (Battling for News: Women Reporters from the Risorgimento to Tiananmen Square) Author: Anne Sebba published on (April, 2011)
- Laura Ashley: A Life by Design by Anne Sebba (1990-05-25)
- (Laura Ashley: A Life by Design ) Author: Anne Sebba Apr-2013
- Battling for News: Women Reporters from the Risorgimento to Tiananmen Square by Anne Sebba (2012-01-24)
- Laura Ashley: A Life by Design (By: Anne Sebba) published: April, 2013
- Laura Ashley: A Life by Design by Sebba, Anne (1991) Paperback
- Battling for News: The Rise of the Woman Reporter by Anne Sebba (1995-03-03)
- Margot Fonteyn (Blackbird books)
- (Laura Ashley: A Life by Design ) Author: Anne Sebba May-2011
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Battling for News: Women Reporters from the Risorgimento to Tiananmen Square
Membership
She is a longstanding member of English Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association and after several years on the Writers in Prison Committee served twice on the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Management Committee.
