Meg Elizabeth Atkins

Meg Elizabeth Atkins (died 2013) was a novelist and an active member of the North Western Homosexual Law Reform Committee (NWHLRC). She is perhaps best known for her novels Palimpsest and Cruel as the Grave.

Meg Atkins worked as a stable hand before moving to Manchester where she worked as a secretary, flitting between jobs to support her writing. Although heterosexual and married, she got involved in the 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."

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