Monica Felton was a British writer, town planner, feminist and social activist, a member of the Labour Party.
19 Facts About Monica Felton
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Monica Felton was brought up in a staunch Primitive Methodists household.
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Monica Felton's mother Una Page wrote temperance hymns, and her father Rev Thomas Lloyd Page was a Primitive Methodist minister.
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Monica Felton attended Wycombe High School then studied at the University of Southampton and was later awarded a PhD at the London School of Economics; she was later appointed to its board of governors.
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In 1937 Monica Felton was elected to the London County Council as a Labour Party councillor representing St Pancras South West, holding the seat until 1946.
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Monica Felton demonstrated a detailed understanding of the role of women in wartime society and munitions production, in her novel 'To All the Living'.
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Monica Felton was employed as a Temporary Clerk in the House of Commons from May 1942 to December 1943, working as an economic adviser to the National Expenditure Committee.
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Monica Felton was elected to the London County Council in 1937 and continued as an elected representative until the start of the Second World War.
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Monica Felton was closely involved in the planning and implementation involved.
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Monica Felton worked for the London County Council and Hertfordshire County Council.
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In 1948, shortly after her election to the Stevenage Development Corporation, Monica Felton became the chairman of the Peterlee Development corporation, working closely with Berthold Lubetkin.
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Whilst in Peterlee, Monica Felton pioneered social research led by women.
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Monica Felton commissioned Mark Abrahms to carry out a 'social and economic' survey for the New Town.
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In 1951, Monica Felton visited North Korea as part of the Women's International Democratic Federation commission and outlined her impressions in the book That's Why I Went, adhering to an anti-war position.
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Monica Felton's visit to North Korea included viewing the aftermath of Korean War atrocities, which she was told by locals were committed by the United States, British and Syngman Rhee forces.
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Monica Felton was awarded the International Stalin Prize "for peace between peoples".
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In 1952, Monica Felton chaired the inaugural meeting of the National Assembly of Women at St Pancras Town Hall in London.
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Whilst attending a forum in India, Monica Felton met with Rajaji, an Indian lawyer, independence activist, politician, writer and statesman, and the last Governor-General of India.
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Monica Felton later wrote his biography, I Meet Rajaji.