Amongst other things, she has written UP THE JUNCTION (1963) and POOR COW (1967). While UP THE JUNCTION is a series of stories/sketches focused upon the experience of working class women, POOR COW is more of a novella, and both works were praised and condemned for their realism and sexual content. These gritty but warm accounts of working class experience, extra-marital sex and motherhood, emotional innocence and knowing deviance made Dunn a central 1960s 'Angry Young Woman'.
