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Eileen

[ahy-leen, ey-leen]

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Helen.



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Eileen Moran Brown, a co-founder of Cambridge College in Massachusetts, saw potential in students most other schools didn’t want.

“Without Eileen’s assistance, I would have never graduated from anywhere,” he said.

In 1963, Eileen Moran married James L. Brown, one of her former students.

But by the time frame of “Hedda,” people certainly had carbon paper and Eileen’s dragging her treasured book to a soiree at the Tesmans’—with its Downton Abbey-sized kitchen, oceanic lawns and herd of hedonists—is really pushing the plausibility envelope.

Throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s, she was rarely out of work - appearing on stage, film and television, including a brief stint as a bus conductor, Eileen Hughes, in Coronation Street.

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