Daisy L. Hobman (née Adler;[1] 17 November 1891[2] – 24 December 1961)[3] was a feminist writer, biographer, social worker,[4] and founding member of Brighton and Hove Humanist Group.
A correspondent later described the atmosphere of the household for The Times:For 30 years, both during the life of her husband... and after his death, the Hobman fireside was a place where an extraordinary variety of people warmed more than their hands and feet.
[7]The couple's son, David Burton Hobman (1927–2003), raised in this "freethinking intellectual family",[4] was an expert on the social and economic impacts of ageing, and a campaigner for the welfare of the elderly.
"[8] Hobman's biography of Thurloe—Oliver Cromwell's Secretary of State—was described by The Times as having:real merit and charm, due mainly to the agreeable manner in which she rambles along commenting on anything in Thurloe's papers which engages her attention.
[9]Hobman also assisted Vera Brittain in the preparation of her book The Women at Oxford; a fragment of a history,[6] and translated German author Friedrich Griese's story Winter in 1929.