Angela Tuckett

Angela Gradwell Tuckett (1906–1994) a solicitor, playwright, athlete, and aviator who was the first female solicitor in Bristol.

Biography 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. When the 1931 Hunger March came to Bristol, she joined the Communist Party and took food to the marchers.

Tuckett was active in the Swindon Communist Party. She was a municipal (1963) and county council candidate (1967) for the Party, one of the . In 1962 Tuckett married Ike Gradwell, secretary of the Swindon Communist Party. She was a delegate to the London Trades Council, on the executive committee of the Labour Monthly, on the editorial committee of the William Morris Society. She was also active in the International Concertina Association, the English Folk-Dance and Song Society.

In 1940 she directed the legal department of the National Council for Civil Liberties and in 1942 she joined the staff of the Daily Worker. From 1948 to 1978 she worked on the Labour Monthly, for a time assistant editor under R. P. Dutt. In the 1930s she was active with the League of Progressive Writers.

Her own papers can be found at the Working Class Movement Library which published her biography of Enid Stacy, Our Enid, in 2016.