Editing Angry young men (section)

==Crosscurrents in the late 1950s==
{{quote|A few are friends, but for the most part they know one another slightly if at all, and they are continually writing unfriendly essays about each other in the literary magazines.|''Life'', 1958{{r|life19580526}}}}

Friendships, rivalries, and acknowledgments of common literary aims within each of these groups could be intense (the relationship between Amis and Larkin is considered one of the great literary friendships of the 20th century). However, the writers in each group tended to view the other groups with bewilderment and incomprehension. Observers and critics could find no common thread between them all. They were contemporaries by age. They were not of the upper-class establishment, nor were they protégés of existing literary circles. It was essentially a male "movement", but [[Shelagh Delaney]], author of ''[[A Taste of Honey]]'' (1958), was described as an "angry young woman";<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marwick |first1=Arthur |author-link=Arthur Marwick |title=The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958–c.1974 |date=2011 |orig-year=1998 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=9781448205424 |page=245 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=etYOaWh1t4cC&pg=PT245 |access-date=4 January 2019 |language=en}}</ref> other female members included [[Iris Murdoch]] and [[Doris Lessing]].{{r|life19580526}}