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Shelagh Delaney
[[Image:Girlfriend in 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 [[25 November]] [[1939]]), is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[playwright]], best known for her debut work, ''[[A Taste of Honey]]''.

(contracted; show full)''Sweetly Sings the Donkey'', several television plays, including ''Did your Nanny Come from Bergen?'' (1970), and ''St Martin's Summer'' (1974), award-winning scripts such as ''Charley Bubbles'' (1967) and ''[[Dance with a Stranger]]'' (1985), and radio plays such as ''So Does the Nightingale'' (1980), but Delaney has not repeated the level of success she did with her first play. 


In 1985, Delaney was made a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]].⏎
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Her works have formed the inspiration for several songs written by the British [[singer]]/[[songwriter]] [[Morrissey]], and she featured on the sleeves of the ''[[Louder Than Bombs]]'' [[album]] and "[[Girlfriend in a Coma (song)|Girlfriend in a Coma]]" [[Single (music)|single]] by his band, [[The Smiths]].

She has one daughter, Charlotte, whose father was Harvey Orkin.  Charlotte was born march 4th 1964, in the lindo wing of St Mary's hospital in London.

==References and external links==
{{Reflist}}
*[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, Greater Manchester|Salford]], [[Lancashire]], [[England]]
|DATE OF DEATH     = 
|PLACE OF DEATH    = 
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