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Shelagh Delaney
[[iImage:Girlfriend_  in_a_ a Coma.png|thumb|right|Delaney was featured twice on [[The Smiths|Smiths]] record sleeves, including this one for their 1987 single, "Girlfriend in a Coma."]]
'''Shelagh Delaney''' (born [[November 25]], [[1939]]), is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[playwright]] of [[Ireland|Irish]] descent,  best known for her debut work, ''A Taste Of Honey''.

Born in [[Broughton, Greater Manchester|Broughton]], [[Salford]], [[Lancashire]], she attended three different primary schools. After failing the eleven-plus examination to qualify for grammar school, she went to Broughton Secondary School, where she saw her first stage production, an amateur performance of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Othello]]''. She was twelve at the time and the play made a lasting impression. 

Delaney proved to be a late developer and she eventually transferred to the local grammar school where she had a record of fair achievement. She left school at seventeen for a succession of jobs in [[Salford]], which included shop assistant, milk-depot clerk, and usherette. Her driving ambition was always to write.

At age seventeen Delaney began ''[[A Taste of Honey]]'' as a [[novel]], but soon realised that it would work better as a [[Play (theatre)|play]]. It focuses on a teen-aged [[working-class]] girl who refuses to conform to her dreary surroundings. The play portrays the lives of typical workers in the north of England in an inventive way.

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==References and external links==
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*[http://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/timelines/women.php?year=3&syear=5& Theatre Museum profile]

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|NAME              = Delaney, Shelagh
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|SHORT DESCRIPTION = British playwright
|DATE OF BIRTH     = [[November 25]], [[1939]]
|PLACE OF BIRTH    = [[Broughton, Greater Manchester|Broughton]], [[Salford]], [[Lancashire]], [[England]]
|DATE OF DEATH     = 
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[[Category:1939 births]]
[[Category:British dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People of Irish descent in Great Britain]]
[[Category:People from Broughton]]

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