Confessions of a Grammar Queen [Large Print]

By Eliza Knight

Book Overview

There are no female publishing CEOs in 1960's New York. And that is exactly what savvy, ambitious Bernadette Swift plans to change.Bernadette Swift, a young copyeditor at Lenox & Park Publishing, is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142052951X
• ISBN13: 9781420529517
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Emerging womens rights story in 1960s New York

Thanks to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for a digital advance reader copy. All comments and opinions are my own unless otherwise noted. I couldn’t resist this book – the title, the cover, and the author! With a feminist women’s book club and the setting of New York in the early 1960s, this was a book I had to read. It pretty much lived up to its promises – with a likeable main character, a sweet romance, a workplace drama and a historic setting “about women’s rights, women’s importance in the workplace, women opening up and talking about things that they’ve never shared before as well as the importance of female friendships and building a community.” I think there will be plenty of readers who are young enough to be newly aware of the treatment of and attitude toward women during this time period – “the 1960s Equal Pay Act, the lack of maternity leave, being overlooked for promotions, and being told by their male counterparts that they didn’t belong.” I began to work in an office in the mid-1970s, and even though the National Organization of Women was then 10 years old, most women were as powerless as those in “Confessions.” In addition to the growth of women’s rights, I agreed with the emphasis that reading and book clubs create a bonding experience and a supportive community. If you liked “Lessons in Chemistry” and “The Book Club for Troublesome Women,” this is the book for you.