Index
Page numbers in italics denote illustrations.
abortion, 2, 107; Abortion Law Reform, 69, 106
Abse, Leo, 112
Amis, Kingsley, 124
Angry Young Men, 135
Antidiscrimination Board for Women, 70
Arden, John, 135
Armchair Theatre (ITV), 150
Auden, W. H., 133
Austen, Jane, 119
Beatles, The, 102
Beauvoir, Simone de, 118
Bennet, Arnold, 76
Berliner Ensemble, 146
Bernstein, Sidney, 151
Beveridge Report, 92
Bond, Edward, 135
Bond, James (character by Ian Fleming), 102
Bradbury, Malcolm, 82
Braine, John, 124
Brecht, Bertolt, 146
Caine, Michael, 102
Cambridge University, 75; Newnham College, 78
Castle, Barbara, 105
Cixous, Hélène, 128
Clark, Ossie, 103
Connery, Sean, 102
contraception, 2; contraceptive pill, 69, 106
Coward, Noël, 133
Crisp, Norman, 153
Cymbeline (Shakespeare), 125n4
Dalton, Robin, 79
Dench, Judy, 116
Drabble, Margaret, 76, 91, 117, 134, 149; Bird of Paradise, 1, 2, 3, 4, 81, 84, 85, 100, 103, 104, 113, 123, 126, 128, 129, 130, 137, 138, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145; The Dark Flood Rises, 87; A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman, 2, 141n5; as feminist, 109, 117; The Garrick Year, 80, 81, 118, 120, 121, 122, 124; Jerusalem the Golden, 120, 124; Laura, 1, 2, 3, 5, 81, 82, 85, 90, 93, 95, 96, 121, 122, 124, 125, 137, 152, 153, 154, 155, 157, 159, 160; The Millstone, 118, 120, 123, 124; The Pattern in the Carpet, 4; The Pure Gold Baby, 87; The Radiant Way, 75, 86, 151; “A Success Story,” 86; A Summer Bird-Cage, 79, 118, 119, 124, 153; “The Unheroic Mode” (senior thesis), 125n4; The Waterfall, 117, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 155
egalitarianism, 91
Eliot, T. S., 133
England, Patricia, 82, 153, 154
English Stage Company, 146
Entertainer, The (Osborne) 145
Euripides, 125n4
Everitt, Richard, 152
Fat Woman’s Joke, The (Weldon), 152
Foale and Tuffin, 103
Freeman, Gillian, 83
Freud, Sigmund, 70
Golden Notebook, The (Lessing), 125, 126
Good Woman of Setzuan, The (Brecht), 146
Granada Television, 82, 150, 151, 152, 153
Hampton, Christopher, 82
Happy Days (Beckett), 87
hippie movement, 102
Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot, 105
Holles, Robert, 152
homosexuality, 2; Homosexual Law Reform, 69, 82
Hulanicki, Barbara, 103
Isherwood, Christopher, 133
It’s a Woman’s World (TV program), 152, 153
ITV, 150
Jellicoe, Ann, 125
kitchen sink drama, 135
Linter, Anthony, 153
Look Back in Anger (Osborne), 133n1, 135, 158, 159
Mackay, Shena, 83
Macmillan, Harold, 106
Married Women’s Property Act, 68, 106
McKellen, Ian, 80
Mitchell, Adrian, 152
Morgan, Gareth, 153
Mount, The (Quaker boarding school), 78
National Health Service, 94
National Theatre, 83
Pinter, Harold, 82, 135; The Birthday Party, 141, 142, 143, 144; The Caretaker, 141; The Dumb Waiter, 141; The Room, 141
Priestley, J. B., 133
Quant, Mary, 102, 103, 104, 105
Rand, Mary, 105
Rattigan, Terence, 133
Reisz, Karel, 84
Rolling Stones, The, 102
Royal Court Theatre, 135
Royal Shakespeare Company, 82, 116, 153
Schlesinger, John, 84
Second Sex, The (de Beauvoir), 118
Sex Discrimination Act, 107
Sexual Offences Act, 111, 112, 113
Shakespeare, William, 125n4
Shaw, George Bernard, 133
Sillitoe, Alan, 124
Snow, C. P., 124
social welfare, 2
South Africa, 70
Stamp, Terence, 102
Stephen, John, 103
Taste of Honey, A (Delaney), 137, 138, 139, 140, 145
TV Times, 153
Up the Junction (Dunn), 98
Wain, John, 124
Wednesday Play, The, 153
welfare state, 2, 91, 95, 96, 155
Wesker, Arnold, 82, 124, 135, 140
Wilson, Harold, 106
Wolfenden, John, 111
Woman’s Hour (radio program), 152
women’s liberation movement, 107–8
Women’s Page (The Guardian), 84
women’s rights, 2
Woolf, Dennis, 152
working class, 97
Younger Generation, The (TV series), 152