The Iron Lady (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Hugo Young
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1925-1989
- Setting: Great Britain
- Principal Characters: Margaret Thatcher, Edward Heath, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph, Nigel Lawson, James Prior, Francis Pym, Norman Tebbit, William Whitelaw
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Middle classes, Conservatism, Employment or employees, Career women, Great Britain, Civil service, Geopolitics, Debates or debating, Prime ministers
- Locales: Great Britain
“High moral earnestness in belligerent abundance, absolute assurance that she knew all the ultimate answers to the riddle of the universe, and an evangelical zeal to subdue others for her convictions.” In his recent book about the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Politics of Paradise, the former leader of the British Labour Party, Michael Foot, quotes the above description of Lady Byron and offers the impish comment, “I thought for a moment he was writing of Mrs. Thatcher.” Foot, whose party was savaged by Thatcher in the 1983 general election, no doubt found that...
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