Margot Heinemann

Margot Claire Heinemann (18 November 1913 – 10 June 1992) was a British Marxist writer, drama scholar, and leading member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).

Early life She was born at 89 Priory Road, West Hampstead, London NW6. Her parents were Meyer Max Heinemann, a merchant banker, and Selma Schott, both non-Orthodox Jews from Frankfurt, Germany. 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.

Works Britain's coal: A Study of the Mining Crisis, Left Book Club, 1944 Wages Front, 1947, Labour Research Department Coal must come first, 1948, prepared for the Labour Research Department The Tories and how to beat them, Communist Party, 1951 The Adventurers, 1960 (novel) Britain in the Nineteen Thirties, 1971 (with Noreen Branson) Experiments in English Teaching – New Work in Higher and Further Education 1976 (editor with David Craig) Culture and Crisis in Britain in the 30s, 1979 (with Jon Clark, David Margolies and Carole Snee) Puritanism and Theatre: Thomas Middleton and Opposition Drama under the Early Stuarts, 1980 History and the Imagination – Selected Writings of AL Morton, 1990 (editor)