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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