Before that, however, in 1972, she had scored an unexpected success with The Descent of Woman, which became, almost by accident, a bestseller and an important text of the Women’s Liberation movement. Her script for a Horizon documentary about Joey Deacon, the disabled fundraiser, won her the Prix Italia in 1975 and in 1979 her serialisation of Vera Brittain’s wartime memoir, Testament of Youth, won her the Royal Television Society’s writer of the year award. As a television writer Elaine Morgan wrote dozens of drama series for the BBC, winning two Baftas and two Writers’ Guild awards. Elaine Morgan, who has died aged 92, rose from a poverty-stricken upbringing in the Welsh valleys to become an award-winning television writer and, more controversially, a proponent of a feminist theory of evolution.
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