Jennie Lee: A Life.

From: Contemporary Review | Date: May 1, 1998| Author: Bird, Dennis L. | Copyright information

Member of Parliament at twenty-four, wife of a Cabinet Minister, eventually a Minister of State in her own right - the achievements of Jennie Lee would be noteworthy in our own times. In the context of the first half of the twentieth century, they were extraordinary. Yet this clever, beautiful woman never quite fulfilled the glowing promise of her beginnings, for reasons which Patricia Hollis makes clear in her perceptive and warm-hearted biography. In 1934 Jennie Lee married the fir...

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