Mary Stocks, 1891-1975
Subtitle: an uncommonplace life
By: Barbara Hooper.
Publisher: Athlone; Athlone Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London; Atlantic Highlands, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Stocks, Mary Danvers Brinton, 1891-; Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.; Political activists -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Teachers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Description: The life of Mary Stocks was one of public service and national achievement. She was a champion of many causes - women's rights and higher education, Socialism, family planning and the National Health Service. She found time for pioneering birth-control clinics, writing plays and biographies and serving as the 'statutory woman' on government committees. Among her friends were Nancy Astor, Marie Stopes and Lord Beveridge.

She became Principal of Westfield College (University of London) and won a national reputation as a popular broadcaster, especially on Any Questions and Woman's Hour. At the age of 75, she entered the House of Lords as a Labour Life Peer.