Media

Since our entry onto the world wide web in 2004, hagsharlotsheroines has been featured in a number of newspapers.

In this section you can read some of our press coverage, as well as some of our press releases. And don't forget that if you have a story of your own, we may well be able to get it published in your regional newspaper. Editors are always on the look out for good stories with a local angle and we'd be delighted to work with you on this. Contact us: mail@hagsharlotsheroines.com and we'll see what we can do.

Press Coverage

hagsharlotsheroines founder, Helen Wilkinson featured in The Guardian, 6th January 2006
How can we make work fair for women? A new survey says it will take decades to achieve equality with men. We asked some eminent women for their ideas on how to speed things up. The Guardian.

Helen Wilkinson, commentator and founder of the consultancy Genderquake: "What could be done to fast-forward change? Just imagine what might happen if all the FTSE-100 companies and all the leading charities and political parties headhunted the brightest and best women in their organisations to lead the decision-making, and they were given free rein to run the country for a month while all the male executives were given paid leave to look after their children or elderly relatives..."

To read the article in full, click here.

Writers News featured hagsharlotsheroines in August 2005.
"It started out as a bit of a joke amongst friends who swapped tales and stories of groundbreaking women from history, myth and legend, but in the past year over 1,000 people have joined in too, forming a dynamic, new online community."
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The Guardian, 12th March 2005, writing about our debate at SpitLit.
"Yvonne Roberts, tired of women characters perfect and pure, or mad and bad (and invariably punished for it), declared a fervent wish for 'wicked, wicked characters, who do what they want to do and survive intact'.
Maureen Freely spoke about writing drafts in which she actively tried to excavate the heroines in her female characters; in the first draft they're invariably exhausted by their travails, while by the fifth they're fighting back. Preethi Nair told her own tale of heroism: when her first novel was rejected by editors, she published it herself. Two years later her story hit the papers and she was offered a three-book deal by HarperCollins. But all is not rosy yet. She has just seen the paperback of Beyond Indigo, based on her own life, and is horrified: the cover is in pastels, and features a woman who's white, and blonde."
To read the article in full, click here.

The amazing life of a free loving muse, celebrated model and journalist's fairy-tale story is told on new web site by Barbara Daivdson, The Argus, Tuesday March 23 2004
'The site features provocative stories…Women featured range from Lilith - the woman who came before Eve, labeled the Earth's first feminist - to Karla Faye Tucker, a murderer who in 1998 became the first woman executed in Texas since the Civil War.' An edited version of Lee Miller's story also appears in the piece.
To download the article as a PDF, click here.

Hags, harlots and heroines - a site for sore eyes, by George Tattum, The Chester Chronicle, Friday 12 March 2004
"The site focuses on members of the fairer sex, both real and fictional, who in one way or another have made an indelible mark on the annals of history."

Local women launch new story telling website
A vibrant new story telling site, hagsharlotsheroines.com, founded by former Mold residents Helen and Laura Wilkinson, launches on International Women's Day, March 8th. Read On

East End landmark celebrated by new story-telling website

A vibrant new story telling site, hagsharlotsheroines.com, founded by resident east ender Helen Wilkinson, celebrates the life of Annie Besant and her part in the 1888 strike at the Bryant & May factory in Bow, East London. Read On

Press Enquiries

We operate nationally and are based in Brighton and London.
For press enquiries, please contact: laura@hagsharlotsheroines.com
or telephone +44 (0) 78 4354 9099

Or you can write to us direct at our Brighton address:

hagsharlotsheroines.com
14 Easthill Drive
Portslade
Brighton BN41 2FD
United Kingdom