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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Churchill was born in London, the only child of a political cartoonist and an actress. In the late 1940s her family emigrated to Canada, where Churchill completed her primary and secondary education. Returning to England after high school, she attended college at Oxford where she received a bachelor's degree in English literature in 1960. While at Oxford, Churchill's first play, the oneact Downstairs, was produced at the National Union of Students Drama Festival. She subsequently married and began to raise a family, but she found the role of suburban wife and mother restrictive. Although she continued writing—mainly radio plays—Churchill has described this period as a frustrating one: "During that time I felt isolated. I had small children and was having miscarriages. It was an extremely solitary life. What politicized me was being discontent with my own way of life—with being a barrister's wife and just being at home with small...

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1. Introduction
2. Biographical Information
3. Major Works
4. Critical Reception
5. Principal Works
6. Author Commentary
7. Overviews And General Studies
8. Cloud Nine
9. Top Girls
10. Fen
11. Serious Money
12. Further Reading
13. Copyright

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