Nowhere to Go but Up: What Angela Lansbury Can Teach Us about Living a Big Life
A lively celebration and feminist reevaluation of Angela Lansbury's career, personal life, and myriad achievements in film, Broadway, and television-and how this icon can inspire us to live bigger and better.

Pop culture writer Lily E. Hirsch weaves the history of the star's most memorable roles within each chapter while exploring her approach to life, including helping other people, trying new things, tuning out naysayers, judging with empathy, processing death, aging, navigating motherhood, and much more. Discover new insights into Murder, She Wrote thanks to new research materials and interviews with some of the show's primary players.

Readers will gain a new appreciation of Lansbury's strength, which she displayed early on after the death of her father in London and emigration during World War II. That strength supported her tremendous talent as she found work in the United States as an actress, first in film and then on Broadway and television. Lansbury would also raise a family and advocate for a healthy lifestyle and positive perspective with her fitness video and book Positive Moves. Along the way, Hirsch provides fun facts, a Lansbury-based personality quiz, a weekly horoscope from the Cabot Cove Gazette, and other entertaining features.

In Mary Poppins Returns, Lansbury sings “Nowhere to Go but Up,” a song with a message that summed up Lansbury's long career and outlook on life. With Lansbury's help, that same message might also find a place in our lives.
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Nowhere to Go but Up: What Angela Lansbury Can Teach Us about Living a Big Life
A lively celebration and feminist reevaluation of Angela Lansbury's career, personal life, and myriad achievements in film, Broadway, and television-and how this icon can inspire us to live bigger and better.

Pop culture writer Lily E. Hirsch weaves the history of the star's most memorable roles within each chapter while exploring her approach to life, including helping other people, trying new things, tuning out naysayers, judging with empathy, processing death, aging, navigating motherhood, and much more. Discover new insights into Murder, She Wrote thanks to new research materials and interviews with some of the show's primary players.

Readers will gain a new appreciation of Lansbury's strength, which she displayed early on after the death of her father in London and emigration during World War II. That strength supported her tremendous talent as she found work in the United States as an actress, first in film and then on Broadway and television. Lansbury would also raise a family and advocate for a healthy lifestyle and positive perspective with her fitness video and book Positive Moves. Along the way, Hirsch provides fun facts, a Lansbury-based personality quiz, a weekly horoscope from the Cabot Cove Gazette, and other entertaining features.

In Mary Poppins Returns, Lansbury sings “Nowhere to Go but Up,” a song with a message that summed up Lansbury's long career and outlook on life. With Lansbury's help, that same message might also find a place in our lives.
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Nowhere to Go but Up: What Angela Lansbury Can Teach Us about Living a Big Life

Nowhere to Go but Up: What Angela Lansbury Can Teach Us about Living a Big Life

by Lily E. Hirsch
Nowhere to Go but Up: What Angela Lansbury Can Teach Us about Living a Big Life

Nowhere to Go but Up: What Angela Lansbury Can Teach Us about Living a Big Life

by Lily E. Hirsch

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A lively celebration and feminist reevaluation of Angela Lansbury's career, personal life, and myriad achievements in film, Broadway, and television-and how this icon can inspire us to live bigger and better.

Pop culture writer Lily E. Hirsch weaves the history of the star's most memorable roles within each chapter while exploring her approach to life, including helping other people, trying new things, tuning out naysayers, judging with empathy, processing death, aging, navigating motherhood, and much more. Discover new insights into Murder, She Wrote thanks to new research materials and interviews with some of the show's primary players.

Readers will gain a new appreciation of Lansbury's strength, which she displayed early on after the death of her father in London and emigration during World War II. That strength supported her tremendous talent as she found work in the United States as an actress, first in film and then on Broadway and television. Lansbury would also raise a family and advocate for a healthy lifestyle and positive perspective with her fitness video and book Positive Moves. Along the way, Hirsch provides fun facts, a Lansbury-based personality quiz, a weekly horoscope from the Cabot Cove Gazette, and other entertaining features.

In Mary Poppins Returns, Lansbury sings “Nowhere to Go but Up,” a song with a message that summed up Lansbury's long career and outlook on life. With Lansbury's help, that same message might also find a place in our lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798765146163
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 10/30/2025
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Lily E. Hirsch is a writer, musician, and reformed academic (former professor at Cleveland State University). Her work has been featured in national publications such as Ms. Magazine, the Guardian, and the Washington Post, as well as humor sites like Slackjaw, Belladonna Comedy, and Frazzled. She is the author of eight previous books including Weird Al: Seriously and Can't Stop the Grrrls: Confronting Sexist Labels in Music from Ariana Grande to Yoko Ono. She lives with her kids, husband, and very old dog in Bakersfield, California.

Table of Contents

The Introduction, I Wrote
1-“It's Today”: Persisting When it Counts
2- Look Before You Shriek: Having a Plan
3-“Open a New Window”: Taking on Fresh Challenges
4-Dial “M” for Mother: Caring for the People Who Matter Most
5- The Woman in the Moon: Confronting Misogyny
6- A Tale as Old as Crime: Finding Love without Settling
7-All that Glitters: Judging without Prejudice
8-Be Our Best: Arguing for Self-Care
9-Risky Business: Defining Success
10-Nothing Old Can Stay: Taking on Ageism
11-“Good-bye, Little Yellow Bird”: Dealing with Death
12-“Send in the Clowns”: Finding Laughter in the Everyday
Encore
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