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Leila Berg: Articles |
Introduction |
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Leila's first adult work was as a journalist. She had agreed immediately before the war to take a London University diploma in journalism, to placate her father, though she said editors would spit on her if she ever revealed it. She first worked for the communist paper "The Daily Worker", at a time in England when the party was the only group opposing the rise of fascism, and had hundreds of thousands if not millions of members throughout England. Later, as her interest in children developed and she began writing books for them, she continued with journalism in the form of many free-lance articles for what was then the Manchester Guardian (now The Guardian), the magazine Anarchy, and a variety of other progressive and child-orientated newspapers and magazines. These pieces always came into her mind as passionate poems, but as at that time poetry was not common currency she converted them into prose before sending them to the paper. A small selection of shorter pieces are reproduced here.
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| Other Articles: - Chained Children - When the All-Clear Went - The 5-year Gap - We Don't Mean You |