Erin Pizzey to speak at Leweston: 17 May 2008

Erin Pizzey Returns to Leweston!

Date:         Saturday 17th May
Time:        11h30
Venue:       Lecture Room, Leweston

This is a great opportunity for all to hear this internationally renowned writer and speaker here at Leweston - a place that holds so many memories for her.
She is an expert on the subject of relationships, how we make them and why some succeed and some fail.

Don't miss your chance to hear her speak!

"Erin Pizzey was born in China, captured by the Japanese, held hostage and left on the last boat out of Shanghai. Her father was a diplomat and her parents roamed the Far East dragging their children behind them. It is no surprise that Erin opened the first refuge in the world for battered women and children in 1971 but she fell foul of the feminist movement when she declared that both men and women could be violent. When all her non-fiction was out of print, she turned to writing fiction where her readers could follow her work and her philosophy. She has a passion for life and for love and is an amazingly powerful speaker."

- www.womenspeakers.co.uk - The UK and Europe's only dedicated site for Outstanding Women Speakers and Facilitators

For more information or to indicate attendance, please call Deanne Mahony, Leweston Society Manager, on 01963 211015 or email mahonyd@leweston.dorset.sch.uk

THE BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS OF ERIN PIZZEY

Erin Patria Margaret Pizzey (nee Carney, year of 1957) on Old Antonian and so much more...

Erin attended Leweston School as a boarder from 1948 to 1957 and has lived in China, Persia, Beirut, Singapore, Santa Fe, New Mexico, The Cayman Islands, Tuscany during her lifetime and now resides in Twickenham. Erin enjoys reading, writing, cooking, antiques, violin, gardening, wine, food and travel.

Erin is an international author published through USA Harper Collins who has works translated in Japan, Russia, Greece, Brazil, Poland, Latvia, Israel and Italy as well as all English speaking countries. She is a published poet and playwright and has become the international founder of refuges for battered women and children.

Erin's non- fiction titles include:
• Scream Quietly Or The Neighbours Will Hear (the first book in the world on wife battering.) 1974
• INFERNAL CHILD: an early memoir.
• SLUT'S COOKBOOK 1981
• ERIN PIZZEY COLLECTS 1982
• PRONE TO VIOLENCE 1982

Erin's works of fiction are:
THE WATERSHED 1983 HAMISH HAMILTON
IN THE SHADOW OF THE CASTLE 1984 HAMISH HAMILTON
THE PLEASURE PALACE (UNPUBLISHED)
FIRST LADY 1987 WILLIAM COLLINS
THE CONSUL GENERAL'S DAUGHTER 1988 WILLIAM COLLINS
THE SNOW LEOPARD OF SHANGHAI 1989 WILLIAM COLLINS
OTHER LOVERS 1990 HARPER COLLINS
SWIMMING WITH DOLPHINS 1991 HARPER COLLINS
FOR THE LOVE OF A STRANGER 1992 HARPER COLLINS
KISSES 1993 HARPER COLLINS
THE WICKED WORLD OF WOMEN 1994 HARPER COLLINS

THIS WAY TO THE REVOLUTION AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN PROGRESS

Erin's short stories:
The Man In The Blue Van
The Frangipani Tree
Addictions, Dancing, Sand

Films and documentaries by Erin:
Scream Quietly Or The Neighbours Will Hear
Chiswick Women's Aid - a teaching film
That Awful Woman, work in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Cutting Edge Channel 4 SANCTUARY
BBC2 documentary Counterblast 1998

Keynote Speeches:
Invited by the German government to Berlin to speak and to show her film: ‘Scream Quietly Or The Neighbours Will Hear'
1997 lunch of honour on Capital Hill sponsored by Congresswoman Lindy Boggs and Congressman Newton-Steer
1978 invited by Mental Health Association of New Zealand to give lecture tour
1979 invited by US Government and sponsored by The Salvation Army to do a second lecture tour of 21 cities.
1979 film, "Scream Quietly Or The Neighbours Will Hear", aired twice nationally on PBS in America
1982 asked to be resident expert on family violence on ‘Phil Donahue Show'
1984 gave evidence in San Antonio, Texas to President Reagan's Attorney General's Task Force on Family Violence. Guest of honour in Rome at a conference of International Supreme Court Judges
1994 - 1997 Three year grant from The Royal Society Of Literature for ‘work of literary merit'
1998 Patron of ‘Care and Comfort Romania,' a program to build a day care centre and an old people's centre
1998 Six weeks speaking tour of Canada
Nov 2002 invitation to speak in Burmuda
2004 Patron of ManKind a charity devoted to men's issues
2004 invitation to Bucking Palace ‘Women of Achievement' luncheon
2006 Opened the first refuge in Bahrain for Arab women
2007 Invited to work with Wandsworth to open a 250 bed facility for vulnerable prisoners in memory of her grandson Keita Craig who was a fragile schizophrenic who commited suicide in Wandsworth in 2000
26th March 2008 invited by the Slovenian Ombudswoman to lecture on domestic violence