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          Shelagh Delaney

          English dramatist and screenwriter (1938–2011)

          Shelagh DelaneyFRSL (; 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".[4]

          Biography

          Early life and A Taste of Honey play

          The daughter of an Irish-born bus inspector father, Joseph, and a Salford-born mother, Elsie Tremlow,[1] Delaney was born in 1938 in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire.[2][5] Born Sheila Mary Delaney, she later changed her first name to sound more Irish before the premiere of her first play.[1][6] She failed the Eleven plus exam and attended Broughton Secondary Modern school before transferring at the age of 15 to Pendleton High School, where she gained five O-levels.[7]

          Delaney wrote her first play in ten