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Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells refuses to be shelved

5/9/2011

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It seems both sisterhood and Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells still means something in this day and age. As of October this year women readers and writers need no longer be shuffled over to the Women’s Fiction section of WHSmith. All thanks to two women from Tonbridge, Claire Leigh and Julia Gillick who wrote to WHSmith’s chief executive Kate Swann despairing of the pink fluffiness of the Women’s Fiction section and lack of any classics. Their appeal to Swann’s sense of sisterhood worked and now teacher Gillick is encouraging her students to write to supermarkets regarding their choice of shelving labels.  

The publishing industry has yet to be queried about its need to put images of disembodied feet (though I suspect the answer to be ‘because all women like shoes’) on novels that fall comfortably into the uncomfortably successful genre of Chick Lit.

Kate

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astralgirl
4/9/2011 06:59:21 pm

Yep indeedy, ooohh W.H Smith you radical muthas - one less shop for me to spend my hard earned free time re-arranging the magazines by putting New Scientist and The Economist into "Women's Lifestyle". Yawn... will the task never end?

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Squeamish Kate link
4/9/2011 07:52:40 pm

I do that, in between turning the Daily Fail over so no one can read their headline at a glance, then I worry I am denying people some amusement on their commute...

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Kate W link
6/9/2011 02:32:00 am

Ha, I do that! But I do it with Autosport and F1 Racing.

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