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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
The
Committee of Privileges
ruled that on the basis of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919,
Viscountess Rhondda
should be allowed to sit as a peeress in the
House of Lords
.
View reference
Chisholm, Hugh, editor.
Encyclopædia Britannica
. Encyclopædia Britannica Company, 1922.
32: 1040
Eoff, Shirley.
Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist
. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
82-3
Beddoe, Deirdre.
Back to Home and Duty: Women Between the Wars, 1918-1939
. Pandora, 1989.
143
politics
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
The parliamentary
Committee of Privileges
, under the directorship of
Lord Birkenhead
, reversed its earlier decision and refused
Viscountess Rhondda
the right to sit as a peeress in the
House of Lords
.
View reference
Eoff, Shirley.
Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist
. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
85-6
politics
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
Opposition peers forced a second hearing, enlarging the
Committee of Privileges
to twenty-six members in order to tip the scale.
View reference
Eoff, Shirley.
Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist
. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
85
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