{"title":"Rita Ricketts","description":"\u003cp\u003eRita Ricketts offers a compelling exploration of \u003cstrong\u003earts and culture\u003c\/strong\u003e, delving into the lives of thinkers who challenge convention. Her works illuminate the intersections of scholarship, creativity, and activism with a sharp and insightful voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect richly detailed narratives that celebrate \u003cem\u003epoetry, radical thought\u003c\/em\u003e, and the enduring impact of cultural movements. Ricketts’ writing invites reflection on the power of ideas to inspire change.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"scholars-poets-and-radicals-by-rita-ricketts-9781851244256","title":"Scholars, Poets and Radicals","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830 and 1940. There is a tailor's son saving souls, a reluctant radical, a hammerman poet, a spellbound princess, pauper apprentices, pioneering women, profligate printers, and patriots publishing in protest against the authorities who sent so many to 'certain death' in the First World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSome became famous: J.R.R. Tolkien, Wilfred Owen, John Betjeman, Dorothy L. Sayers, Vera Brittain, Edith Sitwell, and Laurence Binyon, whose name is recollected wherever \u003cem\u003eFor the Fallen\u003c\/em\u003e is read. Most were obscure, yet their memoirs, letters, and journals, often disregarded in recorded history, are preserved here. This is what makes the collections a rarity and so appealing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFamily memories of the first B.H. Blackwell and the diaries of his son and first apprentices document everyday life against the backdrop of the book trade, and also present a tableau of nineteenth and twentieth-century history ranging far beyond Oxford. The third B.H. Blackwell (Sir Basil) collected their stories, singling out Rex King whose diaries, 1918-1940, contain an astonishing reading list and a mordant dissection of the texts amounting to a critique of early twentieth-century English culture; rich fodder for any book or cultural historian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRex King, like all the characters in this book, wrote for posterity. And Rita Ricketts, a consummate storyteller, has ensured that they will be read by a new generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471510061292,"sku":"9781851244256","price":99.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781851244256-scholars-poets-and-radicals.jpg?v=1775245442"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/rita-ricketts.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}