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Melissa Ann Benn (born 1957) is a British journalist and writer. She is the only daughter of Tony and Caroline Benn. ==Biography== Benn was born in Hammersmith, London. She has three brothers, including Hilary Benn and Stephen Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate. She attended Fox Primary School and Holland Park School and graduated with a first in History from the London School of Economics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://melissabenn.com/about/ )〕 Benn spent several years working at the National Council for Civil Liberties, as an assistant to Patricia Hewitt, later Secretary of State for Health in Tony Blair's government, and then as a researcher at the Open University, under Professor Stuart Hall,〔 working on deaths in custody. Benn then worked as a journalist for ''City Limits'' magazine. Subsequently she has written for other publications, including ''The Guardian'', ''The London Review of Books'' and ''Marxism Today''.〔 Her first novel ''Public Lives'' was published in 1995, described by writer Margaret Forster as "remarkably sophisticated for a first".〔 In 1998 Jonathan Cape published Benn's ''Madonna and Child: towards a modern politics of motherhood'' which caused some controversy. Several reviewers, notably in ''The Guardian'' and ''The Observer'', criticised the book while the ''Literary Review'' called it "a reflective, rich and rewarding investigation into the ...conditions of mothers' lives". ''The Guardian'' featured Benn as one of a number of Britain's leading feminist writers at the time. In 2004, Benn co-edited, with Clyde Chitty, ''A Tribute to Caroline Benn: Education and Democracy'', collecting various papers relevant to the campaign for comprehensive education,〔 an issue in which her mother had been a prominent campaigner. In recent years, Benn has become an outspoken advocate for comprehensives and a critic of many aspects of government policy on education. In 2006, with Fiona Millar, she published an influential pamphlet entitled ''A Comprehensive Future: Quality and Equality for All our Children'', which was launched at the House of Commons in January 2006 at a meeting addressed by the former leader of the Labour Party Neil Kinnock and a former Secretary of State for Education Estelle Morris. Her second novel ''One of Us'', a story of two families set with the backdrop of the Iraq War, was published in 2008. In 2010 Benn helped form the Local Schools Network, a pro-state schools pressure group. In 2011 she published a book, ''School Wars'', which studied the UK's post-war comprehensive education system.〔 In 2012 Benn won the Fred and Anne Jarvis Award, presented by the National Union of Teachers for her campaigning and tireless work for the cause of comprehensive education. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Melissa Benn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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