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- Birth nameAlison Flora Macleod
- Alison Selford was born in 1920 in Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK. She died on January 1, 2023.
- Was a Communist from 1944-57, writing for The Daily Worker before she and her husband were (as she put it) "cured" after the crushing of the Polish and Hungarian democratic reform movements by the Soviet Union. She and her husband then joined the Labour Party.
- Niece of the acclaimed and unorthodox British writer Dame Rebecca West.
- Born in Hendon, Middlesex, Alison Macleod (her maiden name) grew up in Leigh-on-Sea and in London. During World War II,she served with the UK Women's Land Army (1939-41) and Air Raid Precautions (1941-43). Later, she worked as a shipyard welder in Bristol, England (1943-44).
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