Edna May Healey, Baroness Healey (14 June 1918 – 21 July 2010), née Edmunds, was a British writer, lecturer and filmmaker.
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Edna May Edmunds was born in the Forest of Dean and educated at Bell's Grammar School, Coleford, Gloucestershire, where she was the first pupil to gain a place at Oxford University. While studying English at St Hugh's College she met Denis Healey, who was studying at Balliol College. She then trained as a teacher and married Healey in 1945 after his military service in World War II.[1] She became Baroness Healey in 1992 when her husband received a life peerage.
Though she began her writing career relatively late in life, her books were critically acclaimed and sometimes best-sellers. She wrote non-fiction books, often biographies of successful women in powerful positions.[2] Lady Healey also made two award-winning television documentaries.[3]
She was elected in 1993 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature [4]
She died on 21 July 2010, aged 92. She was survived by Lord Healey, her husband of 65 years, three children and four grandchildren.[5]