Mary Stott (1907–2002)
Auteur de Before I Go
Séries
Œuvres de Mary Stott
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Stott, Charlotte Mary
- Autres noms
- Waddington, Charlotte Mary (birth name)
- Date de naissance
- 1907-07-18
- Date de décès
- 2002-09-16
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- England
UK - Lieu de naissance
- Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
- Professions
- journalist
columnist
newspaper editor
autobiographer - Relations
- Stott, Ken (husband)
- Organisations
- The Guardian
Women in Media - Prix et distinctions
- OBE (1975)
- Courte biographie
- Mary Stott, née Waddington, was born and brought up in Leicester, England, the daughter of two journalists. Her mother took her to meetings of local women Liberals and charity fundraising events, activities that she later credited with awakening her to social issues. She graduated from Wyggeston Grammar School at age 17 and went straight to work for the Leicester Mail. In 1933, she moved to the weekly Co-operative News in Manchester. In 1937, she married Ken Stott, a fellow journalist and editor of the News Chronicle, with whom she had a daughter. In 1945, she went to work for the Manchester Evening News as a sub-editor, and in 1957, she arrived at The Guardian to edit the women's page, a position she held until 1972. At The Guardian, she turned a section focused on fashion, cookery, and housekeeping tips into a a platform for women's voices and concerns about social justice. Over the years, she received many awards and honorary degrees and was acclaimed as the consummate newspaperwoman. She wrote two volumes of autobiography, Forgetting's No Excuse (1973), and Before I Go (1985), and edited Women Talking (1987). She was made an OBE in 1975.
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Forgetting's No Excuse par Mary Stott
The first volume of her autobiography in which Mary Scott describes her life as a distinguished journalist, including her time as women's editor in The Guardian , 1957-72. It describes her work with the women's liberation movement, the changes over the years in the technique of newspaper production and ends with her account of learning to be a widow which has brought comfort and strength to women who found that her experiences reflect their own.
I think old people would like this better than young people. She writes a lot about aging and death. However she's very cheerful.
I was given this book as a teenager but the intervening twenty [something] years have given me a better appreciation of the attitudes of a 75-year old, even while they have taken me further from Mary Stott's times. The latter is what I enjoyed the most about the book, which is organised thematically rather than chronologically. This means that on various topics we can hear the perspective of someone who went to work for the first time wearing a cloche hat in the 1920s, lived through war and depression as a professionally and politically active individual (and wife and mother), was hugely active in the women's movement of the 1970s and can bring her comments into the Thatcher era that the book was written. Inevitably, she occasionally comes across as grumpy and opinionated, but I found it valuable to have my default social attitudes questioned by somebody who expresses views no longer in fashion. Well worth a read.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 6
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 39
- Popularité
- #376,657
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 13
- Favoris
- 1