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      • Shelagh Delaney (born November 25, 1939, Salford, Lancashire, England—died November 20, 2011, Suffolk) was a British playwright who, at age 19, won critical acclaim and popular success with the London production of her first play, A Taste of Honey (1958).
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  1. Shelagh Delaney FRSL (/ ˈ ʃ iː l ə d ə ˈ l eɪ n iː /; 25 November 1938 [2] – 20 November 2011) [3] was an English dramatist and screenwriter. Her debut work, A Taste of Honey (1958), has been described by Michael Patterson as "probably the most performed play by a post-war British woman playwright".

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  3. Shelagh Delaney (born November 25, 1939, Salford, Lancashire, England—died November 20, 2011, Suffolk) was a British playwright who, at age 19, won critical acclaim and popular success with the London production of her first play, A Taste of Honey (1958).

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  4. A Taste of Honey is the first play by the British dramatist Shelagh Delaney, written when she was 19. It was adapted into an award-winning film of the same title in 1961.

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  5. Nov 25, 2011 · Shelagh Delaney, a British playwright and screenwriter who reached the height of her literary fame at 19 as an “angry young woman” — a characterization she detested — with the premiere of...

  6. English playwright and screenwriter. Examine the life, times, and work of Shelagh Delaney through detailed author biographies on eNotes.

  7. Aug 16, 2019 · Now recognised as a classic of the British genre that came to be known as kitchen-sink realism, the play was the work of Shelagh Delaney, the 19-year-old daughter of a Salford bus driver, and...

  8. The author of the play, Shelagh Delaney, is an English girl from the North Country, and a couple of years ago, while she was working as an usher in a Manchester theatre, she decided that she was wasting her time lighting people to seats so that they might behold dramas of no merit whatever.

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