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BBC Radio 4 | Saturday Review: Review of ‘The Ascent of Woman’

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Amanda Foreman

Amanda Foreman is the author of the prize-winning best sellers, ‘Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire', and 'A World on Fire: A Epic History of Two Nations Divided'. In 2016, Foreman served as chair of The Man Booker Prize. That same year, her BBC documentary series, 'The Ascent of Woman', was released. In 2019 she was invited to curate a special exhibition for Buckingham Palace as part of its summer opening.

 

Foreman has been a columnist for The Sunday Times and the Smithsonian Magazine. Currently, she is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal bi-weekly ‘Historically Speaking’. Her next book, ‘The World Made by Women: A History of Women from the Apple to the Pill’, is scheduled to be published by Penguin Random House in 2023. She is also CBS News' royal contributor.

 

She is a co-founder of the literary charity, House of SpeakEasy, a trustee of the Whiting Foundation, and the Board Chair of The Feminist Institute.Amanda lives in New York with her husband and five children.

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