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Published: 3 April 2008

Katherine Whitehorn

So many changes in such a short time

PROCLAIMED as the “doyenne of columnists”, Katharine Whitehorn has observed and passed comment on many of society’s foibles in her 80 years.
Following her 2007 biography, Selective Memory, the journalist who once wrote that “outside every skinny girl there is a fat man trying to get in” will cast a retrospective glance over the changes she has witnessed in her lifetime at the Heath Library next week.
“I hope to remind people of how astonishingly different things were in the 1950s,” says the Chalk Farm author.
“It’s nonsense to say that people didn’t sleep with each other, but they didn’t cohabit.
“And the food scene is completely different – when I wrote Cooking In a Bedsitter we thought Italian food was exotic.”
Her talk, Living Through Changing Times, promises a nostalgic look at the quirks of yesteryear but also a celebration of how far we have
come.
“There were incredibly few chances for women. It’s only 100 years since everything a woman owned was the property of her husband.
“One doesn’t realise how relatively recent that is,” she says.
SIMON WROE
* Katharine Whitehorn will be giving a talk at the Heath Library on April 9, 8pm.
Admission free.
“One doesn’t realise how relatively recent that is,” she says.
SIMON WROE

* Katharine Whitehorn will be giving a talk at the Heath Library on April 9, 8pm.

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