Background
Her mother Una Page (née Bone) wrote temperance hymns, and her father was a Primitive Methodist Minister.
Her mother Una Page (née Bone) wrote temperance hymns, and her father was a Primitive Methodist Minister.
She studied at the University of Southampton and later gaining a Doctor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics. She was later appointed to its board of governors.
Felton was brought up in a staunch Primitive Methodists Household. In 1937 she was elected to the London County Council as a Labour Party councillor representing Street Pancras South West, holding the seat until 1946. In 1947–1951 she served as Chairman of the Corporation for the construction of the new town of Stevenage.
During the late 1930s, she became a leading urban planner, connected to the London County Council where she worked until the start of the Second World War.
During the war she worked for the British Ministry of Supply. During the war and afterwards, Doctor Felton lectured on urban planning and housing for the British Broadcasting Corporation Home Service and British Broadcasting Corporation World Service.
After the war hundreds of thousands of new homes where being built. Doctor Felton was closely involved in the planning and implementation involved.
In the years 1945–1946 part of the major New Towns Committee who led by John Reith construction of satellite towns planned.
She worked for the London County Council and Hertfordshire County Council. In 1949, she was the chairperson of the Stevenage Development Corporation in the county of Hertfordshire. Stevenage was the first of the post-war new towns that were built by the Labour government on the basis of the New Towns Acting of 1946.
In 1951, she visited as part of the Women"s International Democratic Federation commission and outlined her impressions in the book "That"s why I went" (1954), adhering to an anti-war position.
After her visit to of Korea she was fired from her job as Chairman of the Stevenage Development Corporation. In 1956, whilst attending a forum in, met with Rajaji.
Rajaji was an n lawyer, independence activist, politician, writer and statesman, and also the last Governor-General of She later wrote his biography, "I meet with Rajaji" (1962).
Since 1953, was a member of the World Peace Council.
