Editing Glenda Jackson (section)

==Early life and education==
Glenda May Jackson was born at 151 Market Street in [[Birkenhead]], Cheshire, on 9 May 1936. Her mother named her after the [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] film star [[Glenda Farrell]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Bryant |first=Christopher |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42790640 |title=Glenda Jackson: the biography |date=1999 |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |isbn=0-00-255911-0 |location=London |pages=1 |oclc=42790640 |author-link=Chris Bryant}}</ref> Shortly after her birth, the family moved to [[Hoylake]], also on the [[Wirral Peninsula|Wirral]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Bryant |first=Christopher |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42790640 |title=Glenda Jackson: the biography |date=1999 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=0-00-255911-0 |location=London |pages=2 |oclc=42790640}}</ref> Her family was very poor, and lived in a [[two-up two-down]] house with an outside toilet at 21 Lake Place. Her father Harry was a builder, while her mother Joan (née Pearce) worked in a local shop, pulled pints in a pub and was a domestic cleaner.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bryant |first=Christopher |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42790640 |title=Glenda Jackson: the biography |date=1999 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=0-00-255911-0 |location=London |pages=4–5 |oclc=42790640}}</ref><ref name="Chambers">{{cite web |last=Chambers |first=Andrea |date=10 January 2011 |title=With More Than a Touch of Sass and Stamina, Glenda Jackson Enjoys Her Strange Interlude Oh Broadway |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20090196,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110110181136/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20090196,00.html |archive-date=10 January 2011 |access-date=21 July 2022 |website=[[People (magazine)|People]]}}</ref><ref name="WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO-2007">{{cite web |title=Jackson, Glenda May, (born 9 May 1936) |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-21641 |access-date=7 July 2022 |website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO |year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u21641 |isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 |archive-date=7 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707161136/https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-21641 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The eldest of four daughters, Jackson was educated at Holy Trinity Church of England and Cathcart Street primary schools, followed by [[West Kirby Grammar School|West Kirby County Grammar School for Girls]] in nearby [[West Kirby]]. She performed in the [[Townswomen's Guild]] drama group during her teens.<ref name="Chambers"/><ref name="WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO-2007" /><ref>{{cite book |last=Bryant |first=Christopher |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42790640 |title=Glenda Jackson: the biography |date=1999 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=0-00-255911-0 |location=London |pages=8–9 |oclc=42790640}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Teeman |first=Tim |date=1 May 2018 |title=Tony Nominee Glenda Jackson on Awards, Jeremy Corbyn, Anti-Semitism, and Dancing With Fred Astaire |work=[[The Daily Beast]] |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/tony-nominee-glenda-jackson-on-awards-jeremy-corbyn-anti-semitism-and-dancing-with-fred-astaire |access-date=9 July 2022}}</ref> Jackson made her first acting appearance in [[J. B. Priestley]]'s ''Mystery of Greenfingers'' in 1952 for the YMCA Players in Hoylake.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bryant |first=Christopher |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42790640 |title=Glenda Jackson: the biography |date=1999 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=0-00-255911-0 |location=London |pages=20 |oclc=42790640}}</ref> She worked for two years in [[Boots the Chemists]], before winning a scholarship in 1954 to study at the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] (RADA) in London.<ref name="Dictionary">Jennifer Uglow, et al. ''The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography.'' London: Macmillan, 1999, p. 276 (US: Boston: Northeastern University Press)</ref> Jackson moved to the capital to begin the course in early 1955.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bryant |first=Christopher |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42790640 |title=Glenda Jackson: the biography |date=1999 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=0-00-255911-0 |location=London |pages=24 |oclc=42790640}}</ref>