Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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27 April 1992: Betty Boothroyd became the first woman to...
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27 April 1992
Betty Boothroyd
became the first woman to be elected Speaker of the House of Commons
; media reports made much of the fact that she had once worked in the Tiller Girls
dancing troupe.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
