Monica Felton

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Monica Felton ( 1906 March 1970) - British writer, Feminist and social activist, a member of the Labour Party . Felton was brought up in a staunch Primitive Methodists Household. Her mother Una Page (née Bone) wrote temperance hymns, and her father was a Methodist Minister.^[1]

She studied at the University of Southampton and later gaining her Phd at the London School of Economics . An institution of which she later was appointed to the board of Governors.

In 1947-1951 she served as Chairman of the Corporation for the construction of the new town Stevenage .

During the late 1930s, she became a leading urban planner, connected to the London County Council where she worked until the start of the Second World War worked. During the war she worked for the British Ministry of Supply. During the war and afterwards, Dr. Felton lectured on urban planning and housing for the BBC Home Service and BBC World Service .

After the war hundreds of thousands of new homes where being built. Dr. Felton was closely involved in the planning and implementation involved. In the years 1945-1946 part of the major New Towns Committee who led by John Reith construction of satellite towns planned. She worked for the London County Council and Hertfordshire County Council .

In 1949, she was the chairperson of theStevenage Development Corporation in the county of Hertfordshire . Stevenage was the first of the post-war new towns that were built by the Labour government on the basis of the New Towns Act of 1946.

In 1951, she visited North Korea as part of the WIDF commission and outlined her impressions, adhering to an anti-war position. She wrote up her experiences in the book "That's why I went" (1954). After a visit to Korea she was fired from her job as Chairman of the Corporation for the construction of the new town Ste . From 1952 - Chairman of the National Assembly for women.

In 1956, being on the forum of the world in India, met with the local spiritual leader Rajaji and became his personal biography, remained in India for several years. Later published a book, "I meet with Rajaji" (1962).

Since 1953, was a member of the World Peace Council. Winner of the International Stalin Prize "for peace between peoples" ( 1951 ).

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