Rebel Writers by Brayfield, Celia -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Dedication Title Contents Introduction

Female in the Fifties Chelsea – The Place To Be Women, Youth and Language A Charming Little Monster

PART ONE SEVEN WRITERS

1 Innocence and Experience

1958: Shelagh Delaney and A Taste of Honey 1960: Edna O’Brien and The Country Girls 1960: Lynne Reid Banks and The L-Shaped Room. 1963: Charlotte Bingham and Coronet Among the Weeds 1963: Nell Dunn, Up the Junction and Poor Cow 1964: Virginia Ironside and Chelsea Bird 1965: Margaret Forster and Georgy Girl

2 A Man’s World: Sexism

Purpose and Agency Blaming Herself Superman Everyday Sexism in 1958 The Prostitute Acceptance

3 Forbidden Kisses: Class 4 All False: Love 5 ‘I Wish I Had a Career’: Aspiration 6 The Great Unmentionable: Sex 7 Drowning in Delight: Motherhood

A Motherless Generation Strong and Emotional No Better Than a Street Woman Getting Rid of It

8 A Rotten Bargain: Marriage

Marriage in Real Life No Sort of Compliment

9 Good Old John: Race

The Age of the Lonely Londoners

10 Before the Urban Family: Friendship

Girlfriends Men Friends

PART TWO OUT INTO THE WORLD

11 ‘Where Is Your Baby?’

The Chelsea Girl and the Sixties Chick Where is your Baby? Clothes and Consumption

12 Losing It at the Moves: Screen Adaptation

The Last Days of the British Film Industry The Triumph of A Taste of Honey Green Eyes Not Really The L-Shaped Room Hey There, Georgy Girl Small Screen, Big Impact

13 A Stain Upon Womanhood

Nymphomaniacs Anonymous Censorship and Offence Small Town Vendetta

14 The Angry Young Men: The Literary Movement That Never Was 15 Backwards in High Heels: Success and After

Shelagh Delaney Edna O’Brien Lynne Reid Banks Charlotte Bingham Nell Dunn Virginia Ironside Margaret Forster

16 We Were Pioneers

Epilogue Endnotes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index Plates Copyright