Maureen Duffy

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Maureen Duffy

Country

Great Britain

Birth - Death

1933 -

Occupation

Writer

Notable Achievements

FRSL

Description

Poet, playwright, novelist, LGBT activist. Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1985 and awarded their Benson Medal in 2004. Notable works include 'In Times Like These' (2013). Published "The Ballad of the Blasphemy Trial" (1977), a broadside against the trial of the Gay News newspaper for 'blasphemous libel'. Often considered the first British lesbian to 'come out'. Exploration of homosexuality was explicit in 'A Single Eye' (1964). 'The Microcosm' (1966), her best-known novel, presents the diverse lives and experiences of the clientele of a London lesbian bar through a pastiche of stories and literary styles

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