MS
became a founding member of the Women in Media
group, one of many outcomes of the early Women's Liberation Movement. The same year she was final president of the Women's Press Club
.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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“Papers of Mary Stott”. Genesis: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Timeline
1 April 1943: Phyllis Deakin called a meeting in a London...
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1 April 1943
Phyllis Deakin
called a meeting in a London pub, attended by sixty-two women journalists, which agreed to set up the Women's Press Club
. (The existing Press Club
refused to admit women.)
“Records of the Women’s Press Club”. AIM25: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
31 October 1944: The Women's Press Club held its first annual...