# Constance Cox
> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Constance_Cox
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Constance_Cox.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Cox
> Source revision: 1355722698
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
{{Short description|British script writer}}
{{About|the British script writer|the Tlingit Canadian schoolteacher and interpreter|Constance Cox (interpreter)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2012}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Constance Cox
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1912|10|25}}
| birth_place = Sutton, Surrey, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1998|07|08|1912|10|25}}
| death_place =
| occupation = Scriptwriter, playwright
| known_for =
}}
'''Constance Cox''' (25 October 1912 – 8 July 1998) was a British script writer and playwright, born in [Sutton, Surrey](/source/Sutton%2C_London).[{{cite news|work=The Independent|title=Obituary: Constance Cox|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-constance-cox-1170945.html|accessdate=2 October 2018}}]
==Life and career==
Cox was born Constance Shaw in Sutton, Surrey, in 1912. She married Norman Cox, a fighter pilot, who was killed in 1942. She had been a postmistress in Shoreham-by-sea, and moved to Brighton where she took up writing full-time after the end of the war.[{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1420996/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Dickens on Television|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}]
In 1957 she adapted the [J.B. Priestley](/source/J.B._Priestley) novel ''[Angel Pavement](/source/Angel_Pavement)'' into a BBC [series of the same title](/source/Angel_Pavement_(1957_TV_series)).
She also was a prolific playwright. She was a member of the Brighton Little Theatre from the early 1950s and directed her own and others' work there for many years.