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[[File:Meg Elizabeth Atkins.jpg|thumb|Meg Elizabeth Atkins, about 1980]]'''Meg Elizabeth Atkins''' (died 2013) was a novelist and an active member of the [[North Western Homosexual Law Reform Committee]] (NWHLRC). | [[File:Meg Elizabeth Atkins.jpg|thumb|Meg Elizabeth Atkins, about 1980]]'''Meg Elizabeth Atkins''' (died 2013) was a novelist and an active member of the [[North Western Homosexual Law Reform Committee]] (NWHLRC). | ||
Meg Atkins was born in Essex and worked as a stable hand before moving to [[Manchester]] where she worked as a secretary, flitting between jobs to support her writing. Later she became a full-time writer, living with her husband in [[Lincolnshire]].<ref>http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Death_Out_of_Season.html?id=w3OdGTPE-zEC&redir_esc=y Google Books.</ref> Her early novel ''Gemini'' (which she later repudiated as an apprentice effort) has a gay theme. Later she specialised in crime fiction, with her series character DCI Sheldon.<ref>''[[Amiable Warriors]]'' Volume One, page 128 footnote.</ref> She is perhaps best known for ''Palimpsest'' and ''Cruel as the Grave''.<ref>http://doyouwriteunderyourownname.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/meg-elizabeth-atkins-rip.html</ref> | Meg Atkins was born in [[Essex]] and worked as a stable hand before moving to [[Manchester]] where she worked as a secretary, flitting between jobs to support her writing. Later she became a full-time writer, living with her husband in [[Lincolnshire]].<ref>http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Death_Out_of_Season.html?id=w3OdGTPE-zEC&redir_esc=y Google Books.</ref> Her early novel ''Gemini'' (which she later repudiated as an apprentice effort) has a gay theme. Later she specialised in crime fiction, with her series character DCI Sheldon.<ref>''[[Amiable Warriors]]'' Volume One, page 128 footnote.</ref> She is perhaps best known for ''Palimpsest'' and ''Cruel as the Grave''.<ref>http://doyouwriteunderyourownname.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/meg-elizabeth-atkins-rip.html</ref> | ||
Although heterosexual and married, she got involved in the North Western Committee because her best friend was a gay man: | Although heterosexual and married, she got involved in the North Western Committee because her best friend was a gay man: | ||
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Meg Elizabeth Atkins (died 2013) was a novelist and an active member of the North Western Homosexual Law Reform Committee (NWHLRC).
Meg Atkins was born in Essex and worked as a stable hand before moving to Manchester where she worked as a secretary, flitting between jobs to support her writing. Later she became a full-time writer, living with her husband in Lincolnshire.[1] Her early novel Gemini (which she later repudiated as an apprentice effort) has a gay theme. Later she specialised in crime fiction, with her series character DCI Sheldon.[2] She is perhaps best known for Palimpsest and Cruel as the Grave.[3]
Although heterosexual and married, she got involved in the North Western Committee because her best friend was a gay man:
- "It seemed to me a total injustice that simply because of your sexual inclinations you should be criminalised."[4]
Around 1966 she conducted a personal campaign around the industrial firms in the Trafford Park estate in Manchester, visiting firms' welfare officers, and asking them to support the campaign for decriminalisation.[5]
References
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- ↑ http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Death_Out_of_Season.html?id=w3OdGTPE-zEC&redir_esc=y Google Books.
- ↑ Amiable Warriors Volume One, page 128 footnote.
- ↑ http://doyouwriteunderyourownname.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/meg-elizabeth-atkins-rip.html
- ↑ Interviewed by Peter Scott-Presland, January 2012. Quoted in Amiable Warriors Volume One, page 128.
- ↑ Amiable Warriors Volume One, pages 129–130.