Constance Cox


Constance Cox was a British script writer and playwright, born in Sutton, Surrey.

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.
Cox specialised in adaptations of books by Charles Dickens and other classic literature. She was one of the first writers to adapt for television. Pickwick Papers was adapted for television by her in 1977. 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.
In 1957 she adapted the J.B. Priestley novel Angel Pavement into a BBC series of the same title.

Selected works and adaptations