Her marriage in 1945 to Morien Morgan – a French teacher who had served with the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War – was a true meeting of minds. But Elaine became a star student, chairing political societies and honing her literary skills.Īfter graduation she taught for three years with the Workers’ Educational Association. When she arrived for interview, a woman who walked alongside her heard her valleys accent and assumed she was applying for a job as a maid. Born into a poor mining family, she won a scholarship to Oxford University. From the humblest of beginnings her life glittered with achievement. Her centenary is being marked with an engrossing new biography from academic Dr Daryl Leeworthy and the wonderful news that a statue will be built in her honour in Mountain Ash, the town she made her home for most of her life.Įlaine deserves both the rigorous scholarship of this new account of her life and work and the memorialisation in art form. A hundred years ago today a woman was born in Hopkinstown who created some of the best-loved television drama of the 20th century, influenced American feminism and transformed perceptions of evolutionary theory.Įlaine Morgan was a remarkable Renaissance Woman, excelling in science as well as the arts.
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