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Shelagh Delaney FRSL (/ ˈ ʃ iː l ə d ə ˈ l eɪ n iː /; 25 November 1938 – 20 November 2011) was an English dramatist and screenwriter. Her debut work, A Taste of Honey (1958), has been described by Michael Patterson as "probably the most performed play by a post-war British woman playwright".
A Taste of Honey is the first play by the British dramatist Shelagh Delaney, written when she was 19. It was adapted into an award-winning film of the same title in 1961. Set in Salford in North West England, it tells the story of Jo, a working class schoolgirl, and her mother, Helen, who is presented as tarty, foul mouthed and promiscuous.
Shelagh Delaney (born November 25, 1939, Salford, Lancashire, England—died November 20, 2011, Suffolk) was a British playwright who, at age 19, won critical acclaim and popular success with the London production of her first play, A Taste of Honey (1958).
Nov 25, 2011 · Shelagh Delaney, a British playwright and screenwriter who reached the height of her literary fame at 19 as an “angry young woman” — a characterization she detested — with the premiere of her...
Nov 22, 2011 · Playwright Shelagh Delaney, who had an international hit with A Taste of Honey , a play she wrote when she was still a teenager, died Nov 20. The cause was cancer. She was 71.
Nov 21, 2011 · Playwright Shelagh Delaney, best known for A Taste of Honey, has died at the age of 71. Her agent Jane Villiers confirmed the writer died of cancer at her daughter's Suffolk home on...
Nov 21, 2011 · Shelagh Delaney, who wrote the screenplay for the seminal work A Taste of Honey, cited by singer Morrissey as the best film of the 1960s, has died after a battle with cancer.
Shelagh Delaney was born on 25 November 1938 in Salford, Lancashire, England, UK. She was a writer and actress, known for A Taste of Honey (1961), Charlie Bubbles (1968) and The White Bus (1967). She died on 20 November 2011 in Suffolk, England, UK.
Now recognised as a classic of the British genre that came to be known as kitchen-sink realism, the play was the work of Shelagh Delaney, the 19-year-old daughter of a Salford bus driver, and it...
Shelagh Delaney. Screenwriter, Playwright. 25 November 1939 to 20 November 2011. Writing her best known work at the age of 18, Delaney subsequently won a BAFTA – shared with Tony Richardson – for her adaption A Taste of Honey (1961).
