Nearly every family has had an iron lady, a strong, determined woman — usually a mother, grandmother or aunt — who comes to the fore in hard times and saves the family farm, the family business or ...

Elaine Showalter is a professor emerita of English at Princeton University. When the second volume of Charles Moore’s monumental biography of Margaret Thatcher came out in 2015, she had two ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) The first volume ...

Who could have predicted that her long and bitter war against the coalminers, which would trouble the Queen herself, would lead to victory? Or, conversely, that she would embrace a policy such as the ...

MAGGIE: An Intimate Portrait of a Woman in Power, by Chris Ogden, Simon and Shuster, $22.95. In the past year, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher seems to have fallen increasingly out of step ...

“Yes, I was daunted, but not because of the admirers or detractors — that was an added attraction because it was part of the interest of the subject — I was simply daunted by the scale of the task,” ...

Some surprising sentimental skeletons emerge from the past of Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady who dominated British politics in the 1980s, despite her image of rigor in both public and private life, ...

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He was a potential prime minister until he left high office to care for his wife, who was seriously hurt in a bombing by the Irish Republican Army. By Alan Cowell In “The Siege,” Ben Macintyre gives a ...

The first volume of Charles Moore’s authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, covering her life up to Britain’s victory in the Falklands, is out, just weeks after her death. It takes its place among ...

The first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, covering her life up to Britain's victory in the Falklands, is out, just weeks after her death. It takes its place among ...