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Elaine Morgan: A Life Behind the Screen
Biography of a passionate socialist and feminist who made an outstanding contribution to popular drama
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BIOGRAPHER Daryl Leeworthy has done an enormous service by providing this introduction to the important work of Elaine Morgan (1920-2013), who used her considerable talent to argue for socialism, peace, women’s liberation and progressive values.
She was also a prolific journalist, teacher, broadcaster and a serious theoretician who studied human evolution from a feminist perspective, with The [[{"fid":"30078","view_mode":"inlineright","fields":{"format":"inlineright","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":false,"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false},"link_text":null,"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"inlineright","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":false,"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false}},"attributes":{"class":"media-element file-inlineright","data-delta":"1"}}]]Descent of Woman (1972) among her most notable works.
Born in 1920 into a working-class family of Labour stalwarts in Pontypridd, Elaine (nee Floyd) became the first person from her school to go to Oxford, where she read English Literature.
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