 Many references are made to Eleanor as the character 'Helen' in Archie Hind's 1966 novel 'The Dear Green Place', as well as her parents John and Sonia Slane (née Zam), whose characters are portrayed in the story as well off, intellectual, and disapproving.It was unusual for anyone to 'marry out' to a gentile (person of non-Jewish faith) and it was often met with opposition; even sometimes resulting in excommunication from a family.Given that the novel was largely biographical, most of these elements of the story are true to actual events.