A matter of taste: six remarkable women and the food they ate
Dorothy Wordsworth’s black pudding, Eleanor Roosevelt and clams, Barbara Pym’s tinned spaghetti ... What does the food these women devoured – or detested – tell us about their lives?
September 2017
Rachel Cooke on food
The origins of clean eating
Why the fashion for restricted diets has been around longer than we might think
June 2016
Helen Gurley Brown: Cosmo editor's quest for glamour, sex and power
At a Brooklyn event, the biographer of the era-defining editor of Cosmopolitan discussed her subject’s strengths and foibles, as well as her feminism
December 2012
Obituaries of 2012
Helen Gurley Brown remembered by Marcelle d'Argy Smith
Obituaries of 2012
Obituaries of 2012 – in pictures
August 2012
The self-hatred that lies behind our growing love for cosmetic surgery
Eva Wiseman
A poor girl is a drag, wrote Helen Gurley Brown. Well, that's most of us
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Helen Gurley Brown: how to have it all
Emma Brockes column
Helen Gurley Brown, Cosmopolitan and me
Helen Gurley Brown obituary
Cosmopolitan's Helen Gurley Brown dies aged 90
June 2009
The practical feminist
Helen Gurley Brown became a spokeswoman for sexual liberation. But her three decades as editor of Cosmopolitan also made her a hero for working-class women, says Jennifer Scanlon
May 2009
The first Cosmo girl
Review: Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown by Jennifer Scanlon Helen Gurley Brown's transformation from mousy secretary to glamorous queen of the glossy magazine makes for a gripping tale, says Carole Cadwalladr
February 2002
Sex and the silicone girl
Helen Gurley Brown is 80 tomorrow, but the driving force behind Cosmopolitan is still having sex and facelifts and fretting about her figure. Just like any other Cosmo girl.
April 2000
The Cosmo girl's dirty little secret
Alexander Chancellor
Alexander Chancellor: "Helen Gurley Brown's success depended on a false image. Without being seen as wild and free, she'd never have got where she did"
February 2000
Sweet on sugar daddies
So Cosmo creator Helen Gurley Brown was once a mistress. Oh, lucky girl. Katharine Whitehorn considers the pleasure of being kept
