Lucy-Anne Holmes is a British author, actor and campaigner. She is best known for founding the
No More Page 3
No More Page 3 was a campaign that ran in the United Kingdom from 2012 to 2015, aimed at convincing the owners and editors of '' The Sun'' to cease publishing images of topless glamour models on Page 3, which it had done since 1970. Started by Lu ...
campaign in 2012 to convince editors to cease publishing images of
topless
Toplessness refers to the state in which a woman's breasts, including her areolas and nipples, are exposed, especially in a public place or in a visual medium. The male equivalent is barechestedness, also commonly called shirtlessness.
Expose ...
female
glamour model
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s on the third page of tabloid newspapers, for which the BBC recognised her as one of its
100 women in 2014.
She lives in Suffolk with her partner and young son. She grew up a
Catholic
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and is now a
Quaker
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.
Holmes has authored several books: ''50 Ways to Find a Lover'' (Pan, 2009); ''The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend'' (Pan, 2010); ''Unlike A Virgin'' (Sphere, 2011); ''Just a Girl Standing in Front of a Boy'' (Sphere, 2014), winner of the Romantic Novelists Association 'Rom Com of the Year 2015'; ''How To Start A Revolution'' (Transworld Digital, 2015) – described a how-to for making change happen, and the history of the No More Page 3 campaign; and ''Don't Hold My Head Down'' (Unbound, 2019) – a memoir about sex. In 2021, her ''Women on Top of the World: What Women Think About When They're Having Sex'', written after interviewing 51 women around the world, was published.
Actor
Threatre
Television and Film
Notes
References
External links
Articles by Lucy-Ann Holmes
I wanted to explore my own pleasure' – how I rebooted my sex lifeArticle in
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
, 18 May 2019.
If you want to write about feminism online, be ready to take on the hatersArticle in
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
, 1 April 2015.
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Other Links
Lucy-Ann Holmesat Jo Unwin Literary Agency
Huffington Post article by Louise Ridley, 8 March 2015
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ttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sc6v8 “I just felt a lot of passion” No More Page Three founder, Lucy-Anne Holmes on how she spread her ideaBBC, 28 May 2015.
Interview by Rebecca HardyThe Friend, 4 April 2019
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century British writers
BBC 100 Women