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She was born in Birmingham, and with a scholarship, studied English literature at Street Hilda"s College, Oxford (1950).
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Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
( Voted Britain’s best-loved poem by viewers of BBC TV’s ...)
Voted Britain’s best-loved poem by viewers of BBC TV’s Bookworm, this perennial favorite with its declaration of defiance against convention appeals to all those with a secret desire to throw off the strictures of propriety and set out deliberately to shock and be outrageous. It sums up this wish perfectly with its pronouncement: "When I am an old woman I shall wear purple/With a red hat that doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me/I shall sit down on the pavement when I’m tired/And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells.” Reprinted here as a gift book with line drawings by Pythia Ashton-Jewell, this edition of the classic is ideal both for those who know and love the poem and for those who have yet to relish its gleeful anticipation.
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Beached Boats by Jenny Joseph (1997-09-01)
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Led by the Nose: A Garden of Smells
(In this month-by-month memoir, poet Jenny Joseph captures...)
In this month-by-month memoir, poet Jenny Joseph captures the smells and senses of her English garden. This unconventional viewpoint is expressed through Joseph's sharp observations and the sensual awareness in her poetry, combined with the energy of her descriptive writing. Also reflected is a sense of humor that sends up those in society who make one anxious about failing to live as the trendsetters dictate. Full of delicious diversions that lead readers off the straight and narrow path to smell the roses, this is a fascinating glimpse of a poet's daily and eccentric life.
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Extended Similes
(Presents a collection of prose fictions by a modern Briti...)
Presents a collection of prose fictions by a modern British writer, winner of the BBC's National Poetry Day poll in 1996. This book shows the influence on human lives of the mechanical workings of the world, illuminating many human states, especially love.
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Nothing Like Love
(Jenny Joseph is known mainly as the author of ‘Warning , ...)
Jenny Joseph is known mainly as the author of ‘Warning , her internationally renowned dramatic monologue in which a middle-aged character talks of her fantasies of old age. But when Jenny was first published in the 1950s she was most admired for the wit of her precision with words in service to a memorable lyric style. Over the more than 60 years in which she has been exploring a wide range of literary forms, new ways of telling stories in prose and verse, introducing cadences of common speech into the lyrical movement of her verse, creating characters who tell their own stories, she has always written what she thinks if as ‘songs . For this new book she has brought back some of those best-loved early love poems to make an entirely fresh combination with previously uncollected poems, and some very new poems published here for the first time. This new collection shows that Jenny Joseph s ability to convey the experiences of a ‘thinking heart is in no way diminished.
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Beyond Descartes
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Beached Boats by Jenny Joseph (1991) Paperback
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Jenny Joseph
Edit ProfileEducation
Street Hilda"s College.
Career
Her poems were first published when she was at university in the early 1950s. She became a journalist and worked for the Bedfordshire Times, the Oxford Mail and Drum Publications (Johannesburg, South Africa). Joseph"s best known poem, "Warning", was written in 1961 and is included in her 1974 collection Rose In the Afternoon and The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse.
"Warning" was identified as the United Kingdom"s "most popular post-war poem" in a 1996 poll by the British Broadcasting Corporation. The second line was the inspiration for the Red Hat Society.
Due to its popularity, an illustrated gift edition of "Warning", first published by Souvenir Press Limited in 1997, has now been reprinted 41 times. 1960 Gregory Award for Unlooked-for Season She has also written six books for children.
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Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
( Voted Britain’s best-loved poem by viewers of BBC TV’s ...)
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Nothing Like Love
(Jenny Joseph is known mainly as the author of ‘Warning , ...)
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Extended Similes
(Presents a collection of prose fictions by a modern Briti...)
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Led by the Nose: A Garden of Smells
(In this month-by-month memoir, poet Jenny Joseph captures...)
- Rose in the afternoon, and other poems
- Beached Boats by Jenny Joseph (1997-09-01)
- Beyond Descartes
- Beached Boats by Jenny Joseph (1991) Paperback
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Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
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United Kingdom