Stella Browne

Not a domestic utensil, but a woman and a citizen' (1917)	Stella Browne in 1938
		'I have never met the normal woman' (1938)

Frances Worsley Stella Browne (1880-1955), feminist, socialist, sex radical, campaigner for women's rights to reproductive control. I first came across Stella when cataloguing the archives of the Abortion Law Reform Association, of which she was an inspirer and founder. I was further intrigued by Sheila Rowbotham's brief essay, A New World for Women (1977). In the course of unrelated researches I found Stella cropping up again and again. Much of the material I encountered had not been available when Rowbotham was writing; this, plus the further leads I came across, persuaded me that a fuller biography was a distinct possibility. While gathering material and looking for a publisher, I have deployed the fruits of my researches in a number of papers, published or forthcoming, and unpublished.

The Life and Times of Stella Browne: feminist radical, free spirit, forthcoming from IB Tauris in the autumn of 2010.

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Some of Stella Browne's writings

My published/forthcoming papers on Stella

Plus texts of two unpublished, somewhat informal papers intended for verbal delivery

Citing Electronic Resources
Useful information

Literary abortion:
references to abortion in literary texts, mainly but not all from the UK, several during the period when Stella Browne was campaigning for law reform