Lucy-Anne Holmes

Lucy-Anne Holmes is a British author, actress and campaigner. She is best known for founding the No More Page 3 campaign in 2012 to convince editors to cease publishing images of topless female glamour models on the third page of tabloid newspapers,[1] for which the BBC recognised her as one of its 100 women in 2014.[2] She lives in Hertfordshire with her partner and son.[3] She grew up a Catholic and is now a Quaker.[4]

Holmes has authored several books: 50 Ways to Find a Lover (Pan, 2009);[5] The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend (Pan, 2010);[6] Unlike A Virgin (Sphere, 2011);[7] Just a Girl Standing in Front of a Boy (Sphere, 2014), winner of the Romantic Novelists Association 'Rom Com of the Year 2015';[8][9] 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;[10] and Don't Hold My Head Down (Unbound, 2019) – a memoir about sex.[11] 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.[12]

  1. ^ Parkinson, Justin (20 January 2015). "How Page Three fell out of step with the times". Archived from the original on 13 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Who are the 100 Women 2014?". BBC. Archived from the original on 15 August 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  3. ^ Don't Hold My Head Down. ISBN 9781783526222. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  4. ^ Hardy, Rebecca (4 April 2019). "I would like to... make life kinder, freer and more respectful for the women coming after me". The Friend. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  5. ^ "50 Ways to Find a Lover". panmacmillan.com. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  6. ^ "The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend". panmacmillan.com. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  7. ^ Holmes, Lucy-Anne (29 January 2019). Unlike A Virgin. ISBN 9780748127702. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  8. ^ Shaffi, Sarah (17 March 2015). "Stirling's Struck is Romantic Novel of the Year". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on 17 April 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  9. ^ Holmes, Lucy-Anne (29 January 2019). Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Boy. ISBN 9780748127917. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  10. ^ "How To Start A Revolution". Penguin Books. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  11. ^ Don't Hold My Head Down. ISBN 9781783526222. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  12. ^ "Book: Women on Top of the World, edited by Lucy-Anne Holmes". Vanity Fair. 1 March 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2021.