Regiment of Women
$26.62
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2026
Summary
Discover your new favourite forgotten female classics with the Mermaid collection - No 8: Clemence Dane’s Regiment of Women with a foreword by Jacqueline Wilson
Miss Clare Hartill, teacher at a girls’ boarding school, has a bewitching ability to get her own way, whether it is among the staff or the pupils who’ll do anything to please her. When nineteen-year-old Alwynne Durand is hired, Clare takes this innocent and enthusiastic but undisciplined young teacher under her wing.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241825112 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241825113 |
| Author: | Clemence Dane |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Michael Joseph Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 396g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | The Mermaid Collection |
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Critics Review
Clemence Dane’s special distinction as a writer is to have won distinction in many different literary fields and to have been mediocre in none * New York Times *
Witty, joyous, razor-sharp. A wonderful new edition * The Times *
Clemence Dane
Born Winifred Ashton in 1888 in London, Clemence Dane (her pen name, taken from a church on The Strand) was an English actor, teacher, writer, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, sculptor, painter, broadcaster, lecturer and pioneering feminist.
Regiment of Women, her first novel, was published in 1917. Subsequently, she divided her time between writing plays, novels, and screenplays. Her writing took her to Hollywood, and films of her work featured some of the most famous stars of their day, including Hitchcock, Hepburn, O’Hara, Garbo, Olivier, Kerr, and Leigh.
Two of her artworks are in the National Portrait Gallery, and her great friend Noel Coward immortalized her as Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit. She was the first British female screenwriter to win an Oscar and was famous for dropping entirely innocent double-entendres.
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