Nell Dunn

Nell Dunn was the novelist of Poor Cow and Up the Junction both which Ken Loach directed into films.
In the book Rebel Writers by Celia Brayfield she notes that Dunn 'had the most privileged background' out of the other female writers of the time and grew up with very little education as her father deemed it unnecessary due to their wealth. Dunn was inspired by the rough areas of London as moved to Battersea with her husband Jeremy Sandford who wrote the script for Cathy Come Home.
I think it is interesting that despite her wealth Dunn captures perfectly the essence of working-class life and I think that because she was genuinely drawn to that area she was able to present people and their lives there in a more positive light than a local maybe could of. It reminded me of when Selina Todd notes in Tastes of Honey that people who lived in Salford when A Taste of Honey was published were outraged because they had tried so hard to make their home seem respectable and Shelagh revealed it to be exactly how the upper-classes thought it was and therefore furthered their harsh judgements against lower-class places.