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Pseudonym for Winifred Ashton, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, a well-known and accomplished member of London’s literary and theatrical worlds between the wars. Dane was a forthright feminist, writing for The Daily Express in 1926 that: ‘A woman who cannot drive a car, deal with a drunken man, speak in public and run a business and a home is getting to be as much a rarity as 50 years ago a woman who could not faint when she was proposed to.’
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Hammill, F., Miskimmin, E., Sponenberg, A. (2006). D. In: Hammill, F., Miskimmin, E., Sponenberg, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900–1950. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379473_4
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