During the years 1987-92 and again in 1997, Jacqueline Mulhallen
toured England and Ireland with a one-woman show about SP
(at first intended just for schools in London's East End). The performance was accompanied by...
Leisure and Society
Mary Stott
MS
studied singing for years, flirted with painting (as she put it), and had an enduring love-affair with gardening.
Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber, 1973.
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A perceptive acquaintance said, Mary paints as if she were writing.
Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber, 1973.
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She was painted...
Reception
Sylvia Pankhurst
A permanent, visible memorial to SP
has proved a contentious issue. Emmeline
and Christabel
have a statue and plaque near the House of Commons
; Sylvia was felt to be too pacifist and too socialist...
Timeline
27 April 1992: Betty Boothroyd became the first woman to...
National or international item
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.
