Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Mary Stott
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Standard Name: Stott, Mary
Birth Name: Charlotte Mary Waddington
Married Name: Charlotte Mary Stott
Pseudonym: Jacques
Styled: C. M. Waddington
Styled: C. M. W.
Used Form: Mary Peirce
MS
is best known as a later twentieth-century feminist journalist and specifically as editor of The Guardian women's page. She is also worthy of notice for her own various non-fiction writing, in essays, monographs, and her two volumes of autobiography, about all kinds of political and cultural subjects, particularly those bearing on the status of women.
She had decided while at school that she was going to be an actress. In Stratford both she and Clive Swift acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company
under Peter Hall
, who was setting out...
politics
Margaret Drabble
She also remembered the rise of feminism: the books by Doris Lessing
, Sylvia Plath
, Nell Dunn
, and Edna O'Brienthat would irreversibly affect women's destiny, and the pioneering of feminist journalism by Mary Stott
.
Drabble, Margaret. “1960s”. The Guardian, 26 May 2007, pp. Weekend 25 - 31.
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Publishing
Eva Figes
After publishing her first two novels she began writing journalism for the Guardian's women's page, then edited by Mary Stott
. She covered such consciousness-raising topics as equal pay.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1967
Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing, 1989.
May 1922: Madeline Linford launched the Manchester...
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May 1922
Madeline Linford
launched the Manchester Guardian women's page, which she produced on her own, with no editorial assistant. It was temporarily suspended during the Second World War.
Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber, 1973.
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John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press, 2009.
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22 November 1955-17 October 1960: The News Chronicle (founded in 1930) ran...
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22 November 1955-17 October 1960
The News Chronicle (founded in 1930) ran as the News Chronicle and Daily Dispatch before finally merging with the Daily Mail.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
8 March 1971: International Women's Day was marked by the...
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8 March 1971
International Women's Day was marked by the largest demonstration of women in London since the days of the suffrage struggle.
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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Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber, 1973.
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1986: June Hemer and Ann Stanyer edited Survival...
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1986
June Hemer
and Ann Stanyer
edited Survival Guide for Widows, which collected women's personal experiences of widowhood, including a contribution from Mary Stott
(whose husband died suddenly twenty years before this).