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Shelagh Delaney
[[image:Girlfriend_in_a_Coma.png|thumb|right|Delaney was featured twice on [[The Smiths|Smiths]] record sleeves. This is the sleeve for their [[1987 in music|1987]] [[single (music)|single]], "Girlfriend in a Coma".]]

'''Shelagh Delaney''' is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[playwright]] of [[Ireland|Irish]] descent. She is best known for her play ''A Taste Of Honey''.

===Biography===
Shelagh Delaney was born on [[November 25, ]], [[1939]], in [[Salford]], [[Lancashire]], [[England]], to Irish parents. It was at Broughton School that she saw her first play an amateur performance of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Othello]]''. She was twelve at the time and the play made a great impression on her.

Delaney's formal education was patchy: she attended three primary schools, apparently enjoying the change from one to another; after failing the eleven-plus examination to qualify for grammar school, she moved on to Broughton Secondary School. However, she proved a late developer and finally transferred to the local grammar school, where she had a record of fair achievement. In spite of this move, she seems to have lost any academic ambition she may have had and left school at seventeen for a succession of jobs in [[Salford]], which included working as a shop assistant, milk-depot clerk, and usherette. Yet her driving ambition was always to write.

When she was seventeen, she began ''[[A Taste of Honey]]'' as a [[novel]] but realised that it would be better as a [[play]]. So she took a fortnight off work to adapt her novel into a play.
''[[A Taste of Honey]]'' (1958) is about a young working-class girl who refuses to conform to her dreary surroundings. The play portrays the living of typical nordenglish workers in an inventative way.

(contracted; show full)===Works===
Her works include:

*[[A Taste of Honey]] (1958)
*The Lion in Love (1960)
*Sweetly Sings the Donkey (short stories, 1963)


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