Jill Craigie

Jill Craigie was born in 1911 in London, to a Russian mother and a Scottish father, and left school at about seventeen. She wrote for the press, then screenplays for documentaries, and moved into directing during the war, one of the first women to direct documentaries in Britain. A socialist and feminist, she married in 1949 a politician who would become leader of the Labour Party, and devoted her last thirty years to a history of the suffragette movement that remained unfinished. She died in 1999.

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• CinemaThe Way We LiveJill Craigie · 1946Cinema