Florence Stacpoole

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Florence Stacpoole
Born1850
Dublin
Died1942
Hampshire
Known forWomen'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[]

  1. ^ a b "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com.
  2. ^ a b c "Dictionary of Irish Biography - Cambridge University Press". dib.cambridge.org.
  3. ^ "Record of Events [175]". The Englishwoman's Review. 15 December 1887. pp. 554–574.
  4. ^ "The health view of temperance". Wellcome Library.
  5. ^ Stacpoole, Florence (1901). "Private Nursing Homes". The British Medical Journal. 1 (2093): 370–371. ISSN 0007-1447. JSTOR 20267365.
  6. ^ The British Printer. Maclean-Hunter. 1899.
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