Florence Stacpoole
Florence Stacpoole | |
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Born | 1850 Dublin |
Died | 1942 Hampshire |
Known for | Women's health writing |
Relatives | Henry de Vere Stacpoole |
Florence Stacpoole (1850 – 2 December 1942) was a writer with a primary focus on health and budgeting.
Biography[]
Florence Stacpoole was the daughter of Rev. William Church Stacpoole and Charlotte Augusta Mountjoy . She was born in Dublin in 1850.[1][2] Her father was dean of Kingstown and a doctor of divinity in Trinity College Dublin. Stacpoole had two brothers who were also writers, she had a total of six siblings. wrote children's books and Henry de Vere Stacpoole wrote novels. Stacpoole moved to Gosport in Hampshire.[2]
She wrote predominately on women's health and child care. Stacpoole was also a suffragist.[1][3] Her work was published in journals and magazines as well as in short pamphlets. She was published by the National Health Society where she was a lecturer. Stacpoole was a member of the Obstetrical Society of London and she worked for the councils of technical education as a lecturer. Her work had a progressive attitude and took a commonsense approach. Stacpoole was also a member of the British Astronomical Association, she had an interest in astronomy. She was also religious and part of the Modern Churchman's Union. She died 2 December 1942.[2][4][5][6]
Works[]
- The care of infants and young children and invalid feeding (1895)
- Handbook of housekeeping for small incomes (1898)
- Ailments of women and girls (1904)
- A Healthy Home: And how to Keep it (1905)
- Women's health and how to take care of it (1906)
Sources[]
- ^ a b "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com.
- ^ a b c "Dictionary of Irish Biography - Cambridge University Press". dib.cambridge.org.
- ^ "Record of Events [175]". The Englishwoman's Review. 15 December 1887. pp. 554–574.
- ^ "The health view of temperance". Wellcome Library.
- ^ Stacpoole, Florence (1901). "Private Nursing Homes". The British Medical Journal. 1 (2093): 370–371. ISSN 0007-1447. JSTOR 20267365.
- ^ The British Printer. Maclean-Hunter. 1899.
- 1850 births
- 1942 deaths
- British women writers
- People from Gosport
- Writers from Dublin (city)