Beginning in 1958, seven very young women writers began to change the world for women in Britain. Shelagh Delaney, Edna O’Brien, Lynne Reid Banks, Charlotte Bingham, Nell Dunn, Virginia Ironside and Margaret Forster had an impact that was spontaneous, unconscious and enormous.
Not since the Brontës had a group of writers portrayed the lives of young women with such shocking honesty. In their teens or twenties, working class, middle class or undeniably aristocratic, they spoke with one voice in plays, novels and films which achieved lasting cultural and legal changes. For the first time, novelist Celia Brayfield considers them as a literary movement.
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