Edna HealeyEdna May Healey, Baroness Healey (14 June 1918 - 21 July 2010), née Edmunds, was a British writer, lecturer and filmmaker. Shewas born in the Forest of Dean and educated at Bell's Grammar School, Coleford, Gloucestershire, where she was the fist pupil to gain a place at Oxford University. While studying English at St Hugh's College she met Denis Healey, who was studying at Balliol College. She then trained as a teacher and married Healey in 1945 after his military service in World War II. She became Baroness Healey in 1992 when her husband received a life peerage.

Though she began her writing career relatively late in life, her books were critically acclaimed and sometimes best-sellers. She wrote non-fiction books, often biographies of successful women in powerful positions. Lady Healey also made two award-winning television documentaries. She was elected in 1993 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Read More Read Less