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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.
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...
Aug 16, 2019 · 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...
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...
Nov 22, 2011 · SHELAGH Delaney was a teenager when she wrote A Taste of Honey, which became a landmark in British theatre and cinema in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It broke new ground with...
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.
Oct 9, 2019 · In 1958, a 19-year-old bus driver’s daughter saw a play at Manchester’s Opera House. Finding the middle-class characters didn’t speak to her, Shelagh Delaney knocked out a script about poverty, prostitution and mixed-race relationships among the slums of Ordsall.
