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In order to establish the extent to which the first Adrian Mole novel is useful to historians studying working-class family lifestyle at beginning of the Margaret Thatcher era, it is first of all critical to determine which themes to focus upon. It was expected that Margaret Thatcher, being the first female Prime Minister ever to rule the United Kingdom, should spark a sincere feminist revival up and down the country. Struggling to make ends-meet with a nation sinking into the likes of strikes and wars, Thatcher was referred to as the “Iron Lady”, a name supposedly attributed to the Prime Minister because of her recklessness towards a determined positive outcome, no matter the turmoil faced. In the first book of the Adrian Mole sequels, the author Sue Townsend depicts a fervent Thatcherite motif, however often with disapproval and distaste. //The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾// seems to interlink the themes of monetarism, warfare and feminism through astonishingly accurate references relevant to the Thatcher era, and it is therefore interesting to establish whether a comical work of fiction can truly aid historians in an attempt to analyse and interpret such a particularly interesting component of British history.