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Louise Daphne Mensch (born Louise Daphne Bagshawe; 28 June 1971) is a British author of chick lit fiction, writing under her maiden name of Bagshawe.
She is a Conservative Party MP, elected Member of Parliament for Corby at the 2010 general election. She announced on 6 August 2012 that she will stand down as an MP due to family pressures, triggering a by-election likely to be held in November 2012.
She was born on 28 June 1971 in London, England, the daughter of Nicholas Wilfrid and Daphne Margaret Bagshawe née Triggs. Her father comes from a family of Roman Catholic gentry;[4] his grandfather was the marine artist Joseph Richard Bagshawe, who was himself grandson of one of the 19th century's most renowned marine artists Clarkson Stanfield, and a nephew of Edward Gilpin Bagshawe, Roman Catholic Bishop of Nottingham. Her paternal grandmother Mary Frideswide Bagshawe was the daughter of Charles Robertson, a stockbroker and benefactor of St Philip's Priory, Begbroke and one of the co-founders of Westminster Cathedral.[6] She is the sister of Tilly Bagshawe, a freelance journalist and author, and also has a younger sister Alice and a brother, James.
Her family moved to the countryside when she was seven. She was educated at Beechwood Sacred Heart School in Tunbridge Wells, and Woldingham School, a Roman Catholic girls' boarding school in Surrey, and was named "Young Poet of the Year" in 1989 at the age of 18. After reading English Language and Literature at Christ Church, Oxford, and following a six month internship at MTV Europe she worked as a press officer with EMI Records (a position from which she was formally dismissed), and then as a marketing official for Sony.
With parents who were active in the Party, Mensch had joined the Conservative Party when she was 14. But because of her religious background and the changing society she became increasingly critical of the Established Church of England and flirted with anti-monarchy groups. Consequently in 1996 she switched to the Labour Party, saying that she believed Tony Blair to be "socially liberal but an economic Tory" and secretly Catholic. By 1997 she had returned to the Conservatives, helped her mother, Daphne, win a seat in East Sussex County Council from the Liberal Democrats. and campaigned in the 1997, 2001 and 2005 general elections. In 2001, Mensch co-founded the Oxonian Society with Joseph Pascal and Princess Badiya bint El Hassan of Jordan.
Her first novel, Career Girls, was published in 1995 and has been followed by 13 subsequent works in the chick lit genre aimed at young women. She has defended chick-lit against allegations, specifically by psychologist Susan Quilliam, that the books cause irrationally high expectations which "ruin readers' lives" by saying that such books merely make readers raise their standards.
Mensch was placed on the A-List of Conservative candidates in 2006. This move was criticised by David Burrowes, from the socially conservative Cornerstone Group of Tory MPs, as favouring "minor celebrities", such as Mensch, over local candidates when selecting prospective parliamentary candidates. In October 2006 she was selected to stand in Corby. As part of her campaigning for the 2010 election, she appeared on Question Time and BBC One's The Big Questions. She believes the fox hunting ban should be repealed on civil liberties grounds, and that its debate and implementation was a waste of Parliamentary time.
In the 2010 general election Mensch won the seat of Corby with a majority of 1,951, defeating Labour incumbent Phil Hope, and in June 2010 she was elected by other Conservative MPs to serve on the Select Committee for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
On 6 August 2012, Mensch announced her decision to resign as the MP for Corby & East Northamptonshire, in order to spend more time with her family in New York City. Mensch had appeared likely to be promoted in the expected September government reshuffle. She told her local newspaper that she had intended to stand down at the next election, but brought the date forward as she was concerned her children would be too settled in the UK by then.
In June 2012, Mensch joined forces with former Labour digital adviser Luke Bozier to set up a social networking website - a topic based rival to Twitter focusing on politics. The site named Menshn - a reference to "mention" - allows users to select their topic of interest. Mensch hopes to raise venture capital finance. The site was slated by IT industry experts for its lack of security.
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Louise Bagshawe - Glamour (read by Penelope Freeman)
Louise Bagshawe - Tuesday's Child (read by Julie Barrie)
Louise Bagshawe - Sparkles (read by Lucy Scott)
Louise Bagshawe - Passion (read by Penelope Freeman)
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http://rapidgator.net/file/d5697cecb1d7f00e2c38aaa4331613fc/Glamour.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5ca3214b6a9845f13f1d2b99cc50ed17/Tuesdays_Child.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b0944ad4db5b6adee5e9a6192395f3f5/Sparkles.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/540560460426a6f8b85f7a020db47aa1/Passion.rar.html |
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