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Article: Is Margot Fonteyn a better woman than Vivien Leigh?
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 7, 1996
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It was bound to be a sticking point. The Royal Mail's decision
to choose five women for a set of stamps called 20th-century Women
of Achievement was destined to provoke an impassioned debate over
who was left out.
Yesterday, as the special issue went on sale, battle raged over
the merits of the five women chosen above the likes of Virginia
Woolf, Marie Stopes, Laura Ashley and Vivien Leigh.
Those featured are Dame Dorothy Hodgkin, who won the Nobel Prize
for her work as a biologist; Dame Marea Hartman, a tireless
promoter of women in sport; ballerina Margot Fonteyn, novelist
Daphne Du Maurier and sculptor Dame Elisabeth Frink.
They were picked from a list of 100 notable women, including ...