I have become the fortunate recipient of a box full of women's magazines, which I shall be sharing with you on this blog over the coming weeks. The oldest to so far surface from this treasure trove is a copy of the Woman's Outlook published September 11, 1926. This magazine was first published by the Co-operative Women's Guild in 1919 and printed articles on gaining the vote and the lives of women involved in political struggle, along with employment and maternity issues, readers's letters and editorial comment. Published fortnightly the Woman's Outlook cost three-halfpence in 1926 and was still in print in 1967. The best known journalist associated with the Woman's Outlook has to be feminist and campaigner Mary Stott. Born in Leicester in 1907 the daughter of journalists Robert and Amalie Waddington, Mary began her career on the Leicester Mail as a temporary copyholder. She speedily graduated to the reporter's room, but prevented from joining the...