Angela Gradwell Tuckett (1906–1994) a solicitor, playwright, athlete, and aviator who was the first female solicitor in Bristol.
Angela Tuckett was born in 1906 into a family of Bristol solicitors. Both Angela and her older sister Joan Tuckett became solicitors as well. Their aunt, Enid Stacy, was an English socialist activist.[1][2] When the 1931 Hunger March came to Bristol, she joined the Communist Party and took food to the marchers.[3]
Other than being the first female solicitor in Bristol, Tuckett, together with her sister Joan, wrote plays on women's rights, including The Bulls see Red, Passing unnoticed, Smash and Grab, Aiden & Abetten, and Charity begins.[8] In the 1930s she was active with the League of Progressive Writers.[6]
Legacy
The papers of Bristol Unity Players' Club covering minutes for 1937–46, correspondence, 1938–47, scripts, programmes, and photographs were deposited in the University of Warwick's Modern Records Centre in 1980 by Angela Tuckett.[9]