Political and Social Views
Helen Gardner was a lifelong Labour voter and, when she lived in Birmingham, canvassed for Labour in a Conservative area. She was one of the key witnesses for the defence in the obscenity trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1960. The character of E. M. Ashford in Margaret Edson's Wit is based on Helen Gardner.
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