Anita roddick autobiography
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Dame Anita Roddick, Entrepreneur, Activist and Campaigner
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Anita Roddick, courtesy of the Chichester Observer.
In March , 44 years ago today, Dame Anita Roddick ( &#; ) opened the first Body Shop in Brighton.
Anita roddick autobiography
Dame Anita Roddick needs no introduction. As well as founder of high street staple, the Body Shop, she was also an energetic human rights, social justice and environmental campaigner; she became a well-known and admired woman all around the world.
Born in Littlehampton, the daughter of Italian parents who ran a café, Dame Anita fitted a lot of things into her life before alighting on the Body Shop.
She worked as an English teacher, worked and travelled in Europe, Africa and the Far East, and, at one point, even ran a B&B in her home town.
In March she opened the first Body Shop in Kensington Gardens, Brighton – today a blue plaque marks the very m