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Elaine Morgan was herself an enthusiastic - and prize-winning - member of the Daily Herald's youth-oriented Bobby Bear Club.Ī clever, bookish and creative child, who published her first short story at the age of eleven, Elaine Morgan excelled at primary school before winning a place at Pontypridd Intermediate School for Girls. This was a Labour-supporting household and was intertwined with the activities of the South Wales Miners' Federation, of which Billy Floyd was a loyal member. Her childhood was spent at 54 Telelkebir Road, Hopkinstown, a busy, multi-generational home, which her parents shared with her maternal grandparents, Frederick and Martha. Occupation: screenwriter, journalist, and authorĮlaine Morgan was born in Hopkinstown, Pontypridd, on 7 November 1920, the only child of William 'Billy' Floyd (1891-1939), a pumpsman at the Great Western Colliery, and his wife Olive (née Neville, 1894-1981).
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