[2] She studied at the University of Bristol, where she won the Whitworth Scholarship, and she then became a tutor at the Redland High School for Girls.

[2] In 1889, there was a wave of strikes in Bristol and Stacy was convinced by a speech of Tom Mann to become involved,[2] but after she spoke at a meeting which had been banned, she lost her job.

[4] That year, she spent some time living in the Starnthwaite colony for the unemployed, but they were soon evicted.

[6] Stacy also wrote frequently for The Clarion and joined the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.

[2] Even after having a child, Stacy spent six months of the year travelling and lecturing on socialist and feminist topics, until she died suddenly on 4 September 1903.