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Never mind all the Great Men – what about the great women immortalised on London’s streets? As this superbly wide-ranging book reveals, they are an extraordinary and varied band with exceptional tales to tell.

It may have taken the women a little longer to gain recognition, but recent years have seen new figures of Virginia Woolf, Mary Wollstonecraft, Ada Lovelace and of course Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square.

Here are ground-breaking statues of the black community, famous names from Florence Nightingale to Twiggy, interviews with artists like Maggi Hambling and Gillian Wearing, and even several statue safaris to take around central London. And where is Wonder Woman?

   London’s Statues of Women offers nothing less than a new vision of the capital.

224pp
160 x 160 mm
Paperback
978 1 0685162 0 7
London/Feminism

LONDON’S STATUES OF WOMEN

Juliet Rix

London’s Lost Department Stores

‘Heartbreakingly poignant’ Ysenda Maxtone-Graham, Spectator

Croydonopolis

‘A gutsy, charming book’, Spectator

Seats of London

‘Wittily written.’ 20th Century Society magazine
’A delightful book’, Subterranea

The Barbed-Wire University

‘Brilliantly researched, fascinating and deeply moving’, Mail on Sunday

London’s Street Trees

‘A brilliant book’, British Wildlife

London Tree Walks

‘Takes you on a series of wonderful adventures through the capital’, Isabel Hardman, Spectator