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Winifred May de Kok,
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(17 May 1893 – 1969) was a
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born writer.


Biography

She was born in
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on 17 May 1893 and attended medical school in England during the 1920s. She married Alfred Edgar Coppard, the British short story writer at Oxford and a leading light of a literary group, the New Elizabethans. She practiced medicine until 1953. In that year she became a television broadcaster, for a show that discussed family life and family health. The show was broadcast by the
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as '' Tell Me, Doctor''. A forthright spokeswoman for women's and neonates' health before the era of family planning, she published several books and articles on parenting and family health. She died in 1969.


Selected works

*''New Babes for Old'' (1932) *''First Baby'' (1947) *''You and Your Child'' (1955) *''Your Baby and You'' (1957)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:De Kok, Winifred 1893 births 1969 deaths South African television personalities South African women physicians South African physicians 20th-century South African women writers 20th-century South African physicians 20th-century South African writers 20th-century women physicians