Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties

In the kitchen with Patience Gray

The show must go on : three trouser-wearing characters : Nancy Spain, writer and personality; Joan Werner Laurie, magazine editor; Sheila van Damm, rally-car driver and theatre manager

A monumental ambition : Alison Smithson, architect

In the garden with Margery Fish

The Brontës of Shepherd's Bush : Muriel Box, director, and Betty Box, producer

Digging for victory : Jacquetta Hawkes, archaeologist

All rise : Rose Heilbron, QC

Fashion in the fifties

Some good and richly subversive novels by women, 1950-60.