Warning : when I am an old woman I shall wear purple
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Place reservation for Warning : when I am an old woman I shall wear purpleSubject: Voted Britain's best-loved poem by viewers of BBC TV's "Bookworm," this perennial favorite with its declaration of defiance against convention appeals to all those with a secret desire to throw off the strictures of propriety and set out deliberately to shock and be outrageous. It sums up this wish perfectly with its pronouncement: "When I am an old woman I shall wear purple/With a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me/I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired/And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells." Reprinted here as a gift book with line drawings by Pythia Ashton-Jewell, this edition of the classic is ideal both for those who know and love the poem and for those who have yet to relish its gleeful anticipation.
Main title:
Warning : when I am an old woman I shall wear purple / Jenny Joseph ; illustrated by Pythia Ashton-Jewell.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Souvenir Press, 1997.
Collation:
30 p. ; ill., 16 cm.
ISBN:
9780285634114 (hbk)
Dewey class:
821.JOSE821821.914
Language:
English
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BRN:
1100378
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