Background
Melissa Benn was born on February 20, 1957, in London, United Kingdom. She is the daughter of Tony Benn, a politician, and Caroline Benn, a writer-educationalist.
(Politics of Modern Motherhood)
Politics of Modern Motherhood
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1998
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2004
(A dramatic, gripping contemporary novel about the dangero...)
A dramatic, gripping contemporary novel about the dangerous space between family and political life. It’s a story about how decent human beings are turned into something else by politics and power, and how ambition can clash with private values and human frailties.
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2008
(School Wars tells the story of the struggle for Britain’s...)
School Wars tells the story of the struggle for Britain’s education system. Established during the 1960s and based on the progressive ideal of good schools for all, the comprehensive system has over the past decades come under sustained attack from successive governments.
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2012
(The Pleasures and Pressures of Growing Up Female)
The Pleasures and Pressures of Growing Up Female
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2014
(A superb, crucial, blistering expose of all the myths abo...)
A superb, crucial, blistering expose of all the myths about our education system that are all too often used to attack it.
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2015
Melissa Benn was born on February 20, 1957, in London, United Kingdom. She is the daughter of Tony Benn, a politician, and Caroline Benn, a writer-educationalist.
Melissa attended Fox Primary School and Holland Park School and graduated with from the London School of Economics.
Before becoming a full time writer, Melissa Benn worked for the National Council for Civil Liberties, the Open University, Women in Prison and the London magazine City Limits.
As a freelance writer, her essays and journalism have appeared in a wide range of publications, including The Independent,The Times, Public Finance, Marxism Today, the London Review of Books, Cosmopolitan and Public Finance. She is a regular contributor to The Guardian and New Statesman.
Melissa is a regular speaker and broadcaster. She has written and presented several Radio Four programmes and has been a guest on the Today programme, Woman’s Hour, Saturday Live, A Good Read, Richard and Judy, the Sky Book Show and Sky news programme. She was one of several writers featured in a one hour special on the representation of politics in the arts and fiction on Radio Four presented by Mark Lawson. She has spoken at the Hay, Edinburgh, Bath and Cheltenham literary festivals, among many others.
As an active campaigner for comprehensive education, Melissa is a founder member of the Local Schools Network, a Vice President of the Socialist Education Association and is current chair of Comprehensive Future, an all-party group committed to the phasing out of selection at 11 and the implementation of fair school admissions. She is also on the board of Forum, the academic journal promoting 3-19 comprehensive education.
Over the last year she has taken part in numerous discussions about recent changes to the English school system, and the implications for democracy, including presentations to the Cambridge Primary Review Trust tenth anniversary conference and appearances at teachers and head teachers’ gatherings around the country. In January 2017 she was the key note speaker at the annual conference of the DECP, the educational psychologists’ wing of the British Psychological Society. In her role as Chair of Comprehensive Future she has been prominent in widespread opposition to the government’s plans to reinstate selective education.
(A superb, crucial, blistering expose of all the myths abo...)
2015(A dramatic, gripping contemporary novel about the dangero...)
2008(School Wars tells the story of the struggle for Britain’s...)
2012(The Pleasures and Pressures of Growing Up Female)
2014(Politics of Modern Motherhood)
1998Melissa Benn is married to Paul Gordon. They have two daughters.
