Gilda O'Neill (25 May 1951 – 24 September 2010) was a British
novelist
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and
historian
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, particularly of the local history of the
East End of London.
Partial list of publications
* My East End: Memories of Life in Cockney London (2000)
* East End Tales (Quick Reads) (2008)
* Our Street: East End Life in the Second World War (2004) (paperback)
Novels
* The Cockney Girl (1992)
* Whitechapel Girl (1993)
* The Bells of Bow (1994)
* Just Around the Corner (1995)
* Cissie Flowers (1996)
* Dream On (1997)
* The Lights of London (1998)
* Playing Around (2000)
* Getting There (2001)
* The Belts and Bow (2001)
* The Sins of Their Fathers (2002)
* Make Us Traitors (2003)
* Of Woman Born (2005)
Personal life
O'Neill was born in Bethnal Green.
She died from side-effects triggered by medication prescribed for a minor injury.
Her son Jeremy died in Thailand in 2013. He was 37 and drowned in the sea.
Notes
External links
Author's page at Penguin BooksAuthor's page at fantasticfiction.co.uk
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1951 births
2010 deaths
English historians
20th-century English novelists