Jenny Joseph was first published in the 1950s by John Lehmann and her awards include the Cholmondeley Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship. In 2006 her poem 'Warning' was voted Britain's favourite modern poem. Jenny Joseph died in 2018, aged 85.
'A poem that was to inspire two generations of women to contemplate behaving badly' - Mail on Sunday 'The most popular poem in Britain' - Guardian 'Continues to inspire with its humour... speaks to the devil in us all... Utterly charming and uplifting' - Good Book Guide