My Life and I: Confessions of an Unliberated Housewife, 1966-1980

This
collection of the best of Betty Bendell, a leading magazine columnist for the UK edition of Good Housekeeping and other magazines, will delight
and amuse. From 'My dollyrocking days are over' (1966) to her last
column for GH
in 1980, these 87 magazine columns have been chosen for their glorious humour, their
social history and absolute embeddedness in British life in the late 1960s to
1980. Betty recorded her era from the perspective of a mother and a wife at
home, in the school playground, at the parties, in the garden, on holiday, in
the shops, and queuing at the supermarket, speculating wildly about the lives
of her friends and neighbours.

Publisher: Handheld Classics
Published: 05/02/2023
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781912766703

About the Author

Betty
Bendell was one of the top five British
women's magazine columnists in the late 1960s and 1970s. She wrote continuously
for a range of magazines, including Annabel, Woman, Homes
and Gardens, The
Lady and The
Countryman, but she was most well-known for her
long-running columns in Good
Housekeeping and Family Circle. She was perceptive, direct and
funny, one of the leading comic writers of her day.

Betty Bendell
(1929-2021)
was born in Wimbledon, south London, and served in the Women's Royal Naval
Service before marrying a Royal Navy photographer in 1957. They had a son and a
daughter and lived in Goring and Henley before emigrating to Canada in 1975.
She wrote for a range of Canadian magazines before retiring in 2012, aged 83.