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Florence Stacpoole
Born1850
Dublin, Ireland
Died2 December 1942 (age 92)
Hampshire, England, U.K.
Known forWomen's health writing
RelativesWilliam Henry Stacpoole (brother)
Henry de Vere Stacpoole (brother)

Florence Stacpoole (1850 – 2 December 1942) was an Irish writer and lecturer based in England. Her works focused on health and budgeting advice for women.

Early life

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Florence Stacpoole was born in Dublin, the daughter of Rev. William Church Stacpoole and Charlotte Augusta Mountjoy.[1] Her father was dean of Kingstown and a doctor of divinity in Trinity College Dublin. Two of her brothers were writers; William Henry Stacpoole wrote children's books and Henry de Vere Stacpoole wrote novels including The Blue Lagoon (1908).[1][2] Her brother-in-law Henry Bremridge Briggs was also a writer.[3] Her sister Lillie Stacpoole Haycraft was a portrait painter.[4] Some branches of the family use the spelling "Stackpole".[2]

Career

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Stacpoole moved to Gosport in Hampshire.[1] She wrote and lectured predominantly on women's health, child care, and household management. Stacpoole was also a suffragist.[5] She was published by the National Health Society where she was a lecturer.[1][6] Stacpoole was a member of the Obstetrical Society of London and she worked for the Councils of Technical Education as a lecturer. Stacpoole was a member of the British Astronomical Association; she was also religious and part of the Modern Churchman's Union.[1]

Stacpoole died 2 December 1942, at the age of 92, in Hampshire.[1][7][8][9]

Works

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In addition to her books and her pamphets for the National Health Society, Stacpoole also published articles in journals and magazines, including the British Medical Journal.[8] She wrote an adventure novel, The King's Diamond, which was serialized in newspapers between 1902 and 1905.[10] Two subsequent novels by Stacpoole, The Mystery of the Manor House and The Uninvited Guest, were also published as serials.[11][12]

  • A Talk with Young Mothers (1890)[13]
  • Our Sick and How to Take Care of Them (1892)
  • Indigestion (1892)[14]
  • Advice to women on the care of their health before, during, and after confinement (1894)[15]
  • The care of infants and young children and invalid feeding (1895)
  • Handbook of housekeeping for small incomes (1898)[16]
  • Homely Hints for District Visitors (about 1897)[17]
  • Thrifty Housekeeping (1898)[18]
  • Home Cooking (1898, 1906)[18][19]
  • "Private Nursing Homes" (1901)[8]
  • The King's Diamond (1902, novel)[10]
  • Ailments of women and girls (1904)[20]
  • A Healthy Home and How to Keep it (1905)
  • Women's health and how to take care of it (1906)
  • The Mother's Book on the Rearing of Healthy Children (1912)[21]
  • Our Babies and How to Take Care of Them
  • The Home Doctor
  • The Health View of Temperance[22]

Sources

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Hourican, Bridget (2009). "Stacpoole, Florence". Dictionary of Irish Biography, Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ a b Stackpole, Everett Schermerhorn (1920). History and genealogy of the Stackpole family. New York Public Library. [Lewiston, Me., Journal Printshop and Bindery]. p. 48.
  3. ^ Briggs, Henry Bremridge (1902). A Manual of Plainsong for Divine Service: Containing the Canticles Noted, the Psalter Noted to Gregorian Tones, Together with the Litany and Responses. Novello.
  4. ^ "Haycraft, Lillie Stacpoole, 1852–1916". Art UK. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  5. ^ "Record of Events [175]". The Englishwoman's Review. 15 December 1887. pp. 554–574.
  6. ^ National Health Society (Great Britain) (1891). Annual report. Wellcome Library. p. 13.
  7. ^ "The health view of temperance". Wellcome Library.
  8. ^ a b c Stacpoole, Florence (1901). "Private Nursing Homes". The British Medical Journal. 1 (2093): 370–371. ISSN 0007-1447. JSTOR 20267365.
  9. ^ The British Printer. Maclean-Hunter. 1899.
  10. ^ a b Stacpoole, Florence (9 December 1902). "The King's Diamond, Chapter XIII". Devon and Exeter Gazette. p. 2. Retrieved 23 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Another Rich Treat for Readers of the Cheshire Observer (advertisement)". Cheshire Observer. 15 April 1905. p. 5. Retrieved 23 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ Stacpoole, Florence (4 July 1908). "The Uninvited Guest". Staffordshire Weekly Sentinel (Potteries ed.). p. 7. Retrieved 23 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ National Health Society (Great Britain) (1890). Annual report. Wellcome Library. p. 11.
  14. ^ "Literary Notices: Indigestion". The Wishaw Press, etc. 16 January 1892. p. 2. Retrieved 22 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ Stacpoole, Florence (1894). Advice to women on the care of the health before, during, and after confinement. London: Cassell.
  16. ^ Stacpoole, Florence (1897). Handbook of housekeeping for small incomes. Boston Public Library. Walter Scott.
  17. ^ Richmond, Vivienne; Rose, Clare, eds. (2021). Clothing, society and culture in nineteenth-century England: Volume 3: Working class dress. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-003-10220-5.
  18. ^ a b "Recent Publications". Birmingham Gazette. 25 October 1898. p. 8. Retrieved 23 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ Stacpoole, Florence (1906). "Home cooking (Everyday Help series)". Wellcome Collection. Walter Scott Limited. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  20. ^ "Florence Stacpoole on Ailments of Women and Girls (review)". West London Medical Journal. 9: 134–135. 1904.
  21. ^ Stacpoole, Florence. The Mother's Book on the Rearing of Healthy Children. W. Gardner, Darton, 1912.
  22. ^ Stacpoole, Florence. The health view of temperance [electronic resource] : a lecture given at a meeting of the Women's Union Church of England Temperance Society, Westminster. University of Glasgow Library. London : Allman & Son (Ltd.).
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