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Elizabeth coxhead biography

          Elizabeth became a distinguished writer which included biographies and novels with a special interest in late 19th century and early 20th century works.

        1. Elizabeth Coxhead cares about her central character, Cathy Canning, the girl from the backstreets of Birkenhead who wants to break out of the demoralisation of.
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          Elizabeth Coxhead


          Life
          1909-79 [Eileen Elizabeth Coxhead]; b. Hinckley, England of [Irish] parentage; dg. of G. E. S. Coxhead, headmaster of the Hinckley Grammar School; ed.

          at Hinckley and afterwards at Somerville College, Oxford; worked as a journalist and literary critic; issued One Green Bottle (1951) a classic novel of British mountain-climbing, centred on 18 yr-old. working-class Cathy Canning from Birkenhead, which was condemned for explicitness by Douglas Henry Crick, the Anglican bishop of Chester;

           
          issued The Midlanders (1953), set in Alney, a hosiery manufacturing town like the Hinckley of the 1920s; she also wrote The Figure in the Mist (1955), and The Friend in Need (1957) - which was filmed as A Cry From The Streets with Max Bygraves in the lead; her Daughters of Erin (1965) consisted in biographical studies of Maud Gonne, Countess Markiewicz [Constance Gore Booth], Sarah Purser, Sara Allgood, and Máire O’Neill [Molly Allgood];