Thank you Margaret Drabble

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Dame Margaret Drabble

Wishing Margaret Drabble, who is stepping back from her role as STAMMA patron, all the very best.

One of our longest-standing patrons, the celebrated author Dame Margaret Drabble, has informed us that she is regretfully stepping back from her position as STAMMA patron.

Margaret, the award-winning novelist of books such as The Millstone and Jerusalem the Golden, biographer and short story writer, has been a patron of our charity for many years, regularly attending our events, giving her support and always showing a great interest in our activities and progress.

Here she is, below, with actor Derek Jacobi and our first director Peter Cartwright when we were the Association for Stammerers, getting together to create a stammering advocacy video in 1992.

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Derek Jacobi, Peter Cartwright & Margaret Drabble before recording a promotional video for our services in 1992

In lockdown in October 2020, Margaret kindly took part in a hugely interesting one-to-one online conversation with fellow author David Mitchell, in which the pair chatted about stammering and how it influenced their writing. If you missed it, you can watch it below.

We thank Dame Margaret profusely for her dedicated support over the years, for championing our community and for all the time she's devoted to it, and we wish her well.

See our list of patrons.