(1920-2013)
Meddygfa Glan Cynon Surgery, Tŷ Calon Lân, Oxford Street, Mountain Ash, Wales
The second statue in the Monumental Welsh Women campaign depicts Elaine’s achievements as screenwriter and revolutionary evolutionary theorist. She sits atop an ocean wave that mutates into a sheaf of her writings, fluttering away from her.
Born in nearby Pontypridd and educated at Oxford (studying English), she returned to Wales, settling in Mountain Ash and had a successful career as a screenwriter, but was perturbed by scholarly opinion on evolution, favouring Alister Hardy’s ‘aquatic ape theory’ which suggested the evolution of humans was more likely to be from water rather than fighting in the savannah. From here the ideas and process were developed into her own writings and she went on to write several books on the matter, alongside her television work.
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