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Description: Author: Lynne Reid Banks / Genre: Fiction Newest Review: ... in a prestigious job to That sort of girl who is regarded as being little better than the prostitutes that live in the ... more |
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by duskmaiden - written on 09.05.04 (Very useful, 1608 readings)
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The 1960s were perhaps the most important decades in Brittan?s social history due to the number of changes that happened such as the legalisation of abortion and homosexuality for males (lesbianism has never been illegal as Queen Victoria did not believe it existed), the invention of the pill, the growth in women?s lib and the relaxation of the censorship laws The impact of this decade really hit me when reading the L shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks, This book was published in 1960 and was set sometime in the 1950s.The plot tells the story of a young single woman Jane Graham who is turned out of her comfortable middle class home by her shocked father after ...
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