Lynsey Hanley (born 12 April 1976) is a British writer and academic.
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Born | (1976-04-12) 12 April 1976 Birmingham, West Midlands, England |
Education | Queen Mary University of London (BA) |
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Hanley was born in Birmingham and grew up on a council estate in the suburb of Chelmsley Wood.[1] She studied English at Queen Mary University of London.[2]
Hanley is a visiting fellow in cultural history at Liverpool John Moores University. She is the author of Estates: an Intimate History and Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide, and is also a regular contributor to The Guardian. A frequent theme of Hanley's work is social mobility, often based on her own journey from a working-class background to attending university and becoming a writer.[3]
As of 2023 she lives in Liverpool.[4]