Background
She was born and raised in a Jewish family in Dublin, and wrote her first articles for The Irish Times when she was still a teenager.
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June Levine
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At the age of eighteen she married Kenneth Mesbur, a Jewish medical student from Canada. She moved to Ontario and had three children by him. She edited the Irish Women"s Journal, and worked as a researcher for Raidió Teilifís Éireann for five years.
She wrote two best selling books, Sisters, a personal history of the feminist movement, and (with Lyn Madden) Lyn: A Story of Prostitution.
Her novel is A Season of Weddings. She was also involved with the Irish women"s movement, alongside figures such as Mary Kenny, Margaret Gaj and Mary Maher.
In 1971 she travelled with other feminists, including Mary Kenny and Nell McCafferty, on the so-called "Contraceptive Train" when they travelled to Belfast to buy condoms.
