The descent of woman by elaine morgan5/28/2023 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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