Elizabeth Wilson (author)

Elizabeth Wilson and her partner Angela [Weir] Mason were both active women's liberation movement figures in the UK. They were members of the Communist Party 1974-1990 and were campaigners for YBA Wife [Why Be a Wife?] - the Women's Liberation Movement Campaign for Legal and Financial Independence, Rights of Women, the National Abortion Campaign, and the women's refuge movement - Women's Aid. In 1984, Wilson became a co-parent when Angela [Weir] Mason gave birth to their daughter. Together with Angela [Weir] Mason she wrote ‘Hidden Agendas: Theory, Politics, and Experience in the Women's Movement', published in 1986.

Wilson was a prominent member of the campaign group Feminists Against Censorship. Wilson wrote for 'underground' papers of the late 1960s and early 1970s, eg., Frendz, Come Together and Red Rag. She was a founder member of the editorial group of Feminist Review 1979–1985 and a member of the editorial board of the New Left Review 1990–1992. From 1987 to 2001 Elizabeth taught cultural studies at the University of North London (now London Metropolitan University). From 1990–1993 she was a member of the Executive Committee of Liberty (the National Council for Civil Liberties). Later in life, Elizabeth joined the Green Party. She also wrote for the Guardian, London, the New Statesman and New Left Review as well as broadcasting extensively for television and radio.

For the most part, Elizabeth Wilson’s fiction writing is a series of linked crime novels set in the late 1940s and 1950s exploring the changed world of Britain and specifically London after 1945. Titles include: The Twilight Hour, War Damage, The Girl in Berlin, and She Died Young.

Elizabeth Wilson (born 1936) is a British independent researcher and writer best known for her commentaries on feminism and popular culture. She was a professor at London Metropolitan University and the London College of Fashion and is the author of several non-fiction books and fiction books. In particular, she writes on feminist politics and policy; the history of fashionable dress and dress as cultural practice; the cultures of urban life; and high culture and popular culture, especially architecture and film. Her novels The Twilight Hour, War Damage and The Girl in Berlin are published by Serpent’s Tail. She has written for The Guardian and New Statesman and was a frequent broadcaster on BBC Radio 4.