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2 unusual facts about Margot Heinemann


Margot Heinemann

After Cambridge she taught 14-year-old girls at Cadbury's Continuation School in Bourneville on day release from the chocolate factory.

Heinemann was educated at Roedean School and at King Alfred School in London, and read English at Newnham College, Cambridge from 1931, later graduating from Cambridge University with a BA with first class honours.


John Madge

Cyril Bibby comments with reference to them as well as Maurice Dobb, the twins Francis and Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce, Margot Heinemann and "the beautiful Eileen Wynne" that "it was noticeable how many of these extreme left-wingers came from privileged upper-class homes" (Reminiscences of a Happy Life, p.171)


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