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...Dogs and Englishwomen Mo Mowlam keeps Northern Ireland peace talks on track with an unprecedented visit to the Maze prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 1/8/1998 | See Source »

...BOTTOM LINE: The fable of four Englishwomen on a Portofino holiday gives moviegoers a vacation in rapture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Month in The Country | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

...reconciliation both come true? Such is the seductive, fairy-tale feminism of the novelist Elizabeth von Arnim. She wrote Enchanted April nearly 70 years ago, around the time Virginia Woolf was lobbying for a room of her own. Von Arnim thought bigger: Why not a villa? Bring four restless Englishwomen to a castle near Portofino to shake off London's damp climate and dim proprieties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Month in The Country | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

ANTONIA & JANE. Chic Antonia, plain Jane. These young Englishwomen are "friends," with all the baggage -- competition, envy, bonding and bondage -- that the word carries. Marcy Kahan's witty script sees all men as dolts, and director Beeban Kidron sees all camera angles as cute, but you could still enjoy this wry, desperate comedy of '90s sisterhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 11, 1991 | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

...articulateness, by immodesty, by fighting the stereotype, the bolder women circumvented their destiny. Actress Nell Gwynn moved up from selling oranges in the stalls to take advantage of the warrant of 1660 that allowed Englishwomen for the first time to play themselves onstage. She then advanced herself further by bearing a child to Charles II. This son of the orange wench was created a duke. A whore's life, Fraser is led to conclude, may be misspent without being necessarily wasted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: She-Soldiers and Acid Tongues | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

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