Margaret Brackenbury Crook

Margaret Brackenbury Crook (5 May 1886 – 24 May 1972) was a British Unitarian minister, a women's suffrage and peace activist, and a professor of religious studies in the United States. She was one of the first women ministers to be granted sole authority over a large English church. She is remembered mainly for the strongly feminist biblical exegesis in her 1964 book Women and Religion.

Early life Margaret Brackenbury Crook was born on 5 May 1886 in Dymock, England, the eldest of three children of Ellen Brackenbury Crook and Rev. L. G. Harris Crook, a Unitarian minister. Women and Religion (1964) Boston: Beacon Press The Cruel God: Job's Search for the Meaning of Suffering (1959) Boston: Beacon Press The Bible and Its Literary Associations (1937) New York: Abingdon Press [edited volume] The Track of the Storm: Tales of the Marne, the Meuse, and the Aube (1917) London: Headley Bros. [story collection