Jacqueline Wheldon joined the Labour Party and in 1945 was the East Ealing Labour Party delegate to the party conference.
16 Facts About Jacqueline Wheldon
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Laski's successor was Michael Oakeshott, whose profound influence on Jacqueline Wheldon's politics expressed itself gradually over the years.
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Jacqueline Wheldon received high marks for an essay on economic history and was encouraged to expand it and put it in for a State Scholarship for Mature Students, which she received.
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Jacqueline Wheldon became a full-time student at the age of 26.
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Jacqueline Wheldon later wrote that "the first book I really read in my life, ignoring all introductions, prefaces, commentaries, was Cornford's translation of The Republic".
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Jacqueline Wheldon gained an Upper Second and left LSE in 1954 to start research at the Nuffield Foundation in Cambridge with Dr Hilde Himmelweit on the book Television and the Child.
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In 1955, Jacqueline Wheldon applied successfully for a post in the Cabinet Office and was at the same time asked to become an officer in the Joint Intelligence Bureau at the Ministry of Defence.
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Jacqueline Wheldon turned down both positions, probably due to her marriage to the broadcaster Huw Wheldon.
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Jacqueline Wheldon had begun to contribute articles on television to such journals as Truth and Context, but she had begun to work on a novel that, following the birth of two further children, was to grow by 1964 to well over 400,000 words.
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Jacqueline Wheldon ceased writing the book on the death of her mother in 1980, and never went back to it.
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Jacqueline Wheldon wrote that she was never more alive than when she was writing.
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Jacqueline Wheldon struggled with attempts to write her own memoir of her husband, but her desire for omniscience hindered her.
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Jacqueline Wheldon's ashes joined those of her husband at the base of an unmarked tree in the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew.
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Jacqueline Wheldon enjoyed the company of intelligent men and women of the world, and they enjoyed hers.
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Jacqueline Wheldon maintained a long correspondence with the art critic John Berger, and with her husband's friend the sculptor and novelist Jonah Jones.
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Dan Jacobson wrote that Jacqueline Wheldon "had a gift for friendship"; Melvyn Bragg used precisely the same words, adding that "she was one of the very few clever people who was good".