Lucy Lethbridge

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Lucy Lethbridge (born 1963 in Hammersmith ) is a British writer.

Life

Lucy Lethbridge primarily writes non-fiction books for a young audience, she was co-author of several titles in the children's history book series Who Was ... published by Short Books. Her biography about the mathematical genius Ada Lovelace won a Blue Peter Book Award in 2002 . She was the head of the literary department at the Catholic Herald . She writes feature articles for The Observer , The Sunday Telegraph , The Independent and The Times Literary Supplement . Lethbridge was recognized in leading English newspapers in 2013 for her study of the social history of the servants.

Lethbridge lives in London.

Works (selection)

  • Spit & polish: old-fashioned ways to banish dirt, dust and decay . London: Bloomsbury, 2016
  • Mind your manors: tried-and-true British household cleaning tips . New York: WW Norton & Company, 2016
  • Henry Smith: his life & legacy . London: The Henry Smith Charity
  • Servants - A Downstairs View of Twentieth-Century Britain. London: Bloomsbury, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4088-3407-7
  • Usborne true stories of pirates . Youth book. London: Usborne, 2007
  • with Robin Lawrie: Napoleon . Youth book. London: Usborne, 2005
  • Who was St Francis of Assisi: the patron saint of animals . London: Short, 2005
  • Annie Oakley  : Sharpshooter of the Wild West . London: Short Books, 2004
  • Florence Nightingale . London: Usborne, 2004
  • Ada Lovelace  : the computer wizard of Victorian England . Youth book. London: Short, 2004
  • with Selina O'Grady: A deep but dazzling darkness: an anthology of personal experiences of God . London: Darton Longman & Todd, 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leah Price : The Help and the Helped , Review, in: The New York Times, November 29, 2013
  2. ↑ on Henry Smith see: The Henry Smith Charity and the article The Henry Smith Charity in the English Wikipedia
personal data
SURNAME Lethbridge, Lucy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Hammersmith