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The lady's not for turning

It was written by the playwright Sir Ronald Millar, who had been Thatcher's speech-writer since 1973, and was a pun on the 1948 play The Lady's Not for Burning by Christopher Fry, although Thatcher missed the reference herself.


Ca' da Mosto

According to an interview in The Lady, the palace is admired by Francesco da Mosto, a descendant of its eponymous former owners, and is the Venetian building he would most like to see restored.

Nora Nicholson

She achieved wider notice in the West End in 1947 for her role in Dark Summer and was admired in both London and New York in The Lady's Not for Burning in 1949/50.

The Lady, or the Tiger?

Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp released a recording of "The Lady, or the Tiger?" and "The Discourager of Hesitancy" with Willcox reading the stories to electric guitar accompaniment by Fripp.

The Lady's Dressing Room

In response to this poem, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu wrote “The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to Write a Poem call'd the Lady's Dressing Room.

The Lady's Dressing Room is a poem written by Jonathan Swift first published in 1732.


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