Jilly Cooper
Jilly Cooper
Jilly Cooper OBEis an English author. She began her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the Rutshire Chronicles...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth21 February 1937
class feet good-man
The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.
sunday wife pieces
I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.
british-author certainly city contrast local quite village
We were the local cockneys, well I wasn't quite a cockney, but I was certainly enchanted by the contrast between city and village life.