Leah Leneman


Leah Leneman was a popular historian and cookery writer. She wrote about Scottish history including the struggle for women's suffrage.

Biography

Leah Leneman was born in California of European descent. She grew up in Los Angeles, educated in a private English/Hebrew school. She embarked on an acting career in the early 1960s first in New York, then in Islington, London.
Leneman became a vegetarian by the influence of Vedanta movement of Hinduism and later wrote cookery books.
She was also one of the pioneers of women's history in Scotland. She received an adult education class and developed her interest in Scotland's history, and after taking A-level, she enrolled as a mature student at the University of Edinburgh in 1975. She introduced to a wide audience many aspects of Scottish social history from the 17th to the 19th centuries. She worked on Scottish women's history and published many books later.

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