Margot Heinemann

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Margot Claire Heinemann (1913 – 1992) was a British Marxist writer, drama scholar, and leading member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).

She joined the CPGB in 1934, because of its active opposition to the British Union of Fascists. She was the lover of John Cornford, while a student at the University of Cambridge. The historian Eric Hobsbawm, there also at the time, wrote 'she probably had more influence on me than any other person I have known,'

She was educated at Roedean and King Alfred School in London, and read English at Newnham College, Cambridge from 1931. She joined the CPGB in 1934, and was employed in the Labour Research Department from 1937.

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"Britain's coal: A Study of the Mining Crisis" (Left Book Club. 1944)
"Wages Front" (1947) Labour Research Department
"Coal must come first"; prepared for the (1948) Labour Research Department
"The Tories and how to beat them" (Communist Party. 1951)
"The Adventurers" (1960) novel
"Britain in the Nineteen Thirties" (1971) with Noreen Branson
"Experiments in English Teaching - New Work in Higher and Further Education" (1976) editor with David Craig
"Culture and Crisis in Britain in the 30s" (1979) with Jon Clark, David Margolies and Carole Snee
"Puritanism and Theatre: Thomas Middleton and Opposition Drama under the Early Stuarts" (1980)
"History and the Imagination - Selected Writings of AL Morton" (1990) editor