![]() In a career spanning 30 years, she won a host of awards and scripted some of the best-loved dramas in television history – including How Green Was My Valley and The Life and Times of Lloyd George. One of the first women to make an impact in the male-dominated world of the small screen at this time, her first television scripts were accepted before she even owned a TV set. Married with three sons by the 1950s, she began writing plays to help make ends meet. ![]() But Elaine became a star student, chairing political societies and honing her literary skills.Īfter graduation she taught for three years with the Workers’ Educational Association. ![]() When she arrived, they heard her valleys accent and assumed she was applying for a job as a cleaner. What about the evolution of women?Įxcelling in both the arts and science, she became a top TV writer, a feminist icon and a ground-breaking evolutionary theorist.īorn into a poor mining family, she won a scholarship to Oxford University. ![]() They were taking it for granted that evolution consists of making things better for the male mighty hunter…and I thought what about her? And what about the children? I wanted to write a book from their angle. I thought they were giving an unduly masculine slant on evolution. ![]()
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