Pam Plays Doubles by Jean MacGibbon5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Yet these lively tales were quite free from ideology and propaganda political correctness was one literary stance Jean had no hand in pioneering. These showed her typical quality and originality of approach, and helped to launch a new and unsenti- mental kind of plot and story, in which, for example, there appears a black girl heroine. She eventually cured herself of mental paralysis and writer's block by working on a series of children's books. It seemed as if a highly promising literary career would be cut short which in one sense it was, because there seems no doubt that if she had retained her health Jean would have written novels that would have put her in the forefront of postwar women's writing. Jean took years to recover from this terrible affliction, and might not have done so without the unfailing support of her husband, the publisher and author James Macgibbon (obituary, March 4 2000) and family. ![]() ![]() Tragically, the success of When The Weather's Changing coincided with a severe mental breakdown, which must have been at least partly caused by the stresses and strains of wartime London life. The latter became an ally and friend, whose discerning eye was to follow Jean's subsequent career. ![]() It was deservedly praised by reviewers, and enthusiastically admired by Roy Fuller and Rosamond Lehmann. ![]()
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