
The new issue of the IHBC’s members’ journal, Context, No. 181, alongside themed and special features includes a wide range of regular articles, with the current spotlight on IHBC’s past-Chair James Caird’s journey from the ‘The Upper Ten Thousand’ to ‘women’s artistic and personal freedom’.
IHBC’s past-Chair James Caird writes in his ‘Notes from the Chair’:
In 1844, the American writer NP Willis coined the term ‘The Upper Ten’. Short for the ‘The Upper Ten Thousand’, it denoted the prosperous two per cent elite of New York’s population. The term was soon applied in Britain to the government, aristocracy, landed gentry and leaders of such august bodies as the Church of England and the Jockey Club. In 1864, Anthony Trollope in his novel Can You Forgive Her? added a refinement of ‘The Upper Ten Hundred’ for the blue-blooded, as opposed to those with regulation red…
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The search for new beginnings in women’s artistic and personal freedom is elegantly examined by Joanna Biggs in her recent book A Life of One’s Own. This plaits her own experience and thoughts with those of eight iconic women writers and the female characters in their novels. Freedom of expression runs hand in hand with freedom to be heard; something to be fostered by all of us, the Upper Ten included.’
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- Notes from the chair
- Director’s cut
- New member profile
- Inter alia
- Vox pop
- New members
- Book reviews
- Products and services
- Specialist suppliers index
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