Michelene Wandor

Michelene Dinah Wandor (née Samuels, for a time Michelene Victor, born 20 April 1940) is an English playwright, critic, broadcaster, poet, lecturer, and musician. Her parents, Abraham Samuels and Rosalie Wandor, were early 20th-century Russian Jewish émigrés. After attending Chingford Secondary Modern and High Schools, Wandor studied English at Newnham College, Cambridge graduating in 1962. She also has Masters degrees from the University of Essex (Sociology of Literature 1975-6) and in Music from London University/Trinity College of Music, London. Wandor has been active in the Women's Liberation Movement since 1969 and edited its first collection of essays The Body Politic in 1972. Once a Feminist followed in 1990 and is an oral...