Nancy Witcher Viscountess Astor

RS held the first of her full-time employment positions to carry a salary, as Lady Astor 's political secretary.

Visitors to Asolo (as well as hosts to Stark in England) during this period include Nancy, Lady Astor , Lord David Cecil , and Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson .

John Jock Murray and Sir Sydney Cockerell initially advised Stark against writing this book, urging her to remain in the travel genre rather than attempt philosophical writing. However, they apologized for their opinions when the...

Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West , Stella Benson , Cicely Hamilton , Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor and Ellen Wilkinson , Virginia Woolf , Naomi Mitchison , E. M. Delafield , Rose Macaulay

ER was the object of misogynistic attacks, personal and professional, throughout her parliamentary career. When she was absent from a House of Commons debate in June 1942, someone called A. McLaren commented, I see that...

Despite her successes with the Pioneer Players and the Little Theatre movement, EC was often unable to find work in London, possibly because of her relationship with Christopher St John , possibly (as St...

RS volunteered as parliamentary secretary and advisor to Lady Astor , the first woman Member of Parliament to sit in the House of Commons .

This prompted Lady Rhondda to call the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act a leaky saucepan.Millicent Garrett Fawcett called this decision simply scandalous.Nancy, Lady Astor , chair of the Consultative Committee of Women's Organizations

From 1921 to 1924, MHVR was the president of the National Women Citizen's Association . During this decade, she was also an executive member of the Women's Consultative Committee , chaired by Nancy, Lady Astor

The group's agenda was to obtain legislative improvements in child-assault laws, the position of unmarried mothers, equality of both parents in guardianship rights, equal pay for teachers, equal civic service opportunities for women and men...

The unfolding of this early conference suggests the serious weaknesses of Rathbone's stance on Indian women's issues. One of the first female students at the University of Madras and the founder of an Indian Women's Association

In a letter to the Times, EL and Nancy Astor appealed for contributions to the Save the Children Fund , for children affected by the coal miners' strike.

MGF was acutely aware of the potential represented by members of parliament, as is shown in her initiative in founding the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform in 1916, to bring together MPs who were prepared...

MHVR , with Nancy Astor , Dorothy Balfour , Eleanor Barton , and Elizabeth Macadam , drafted a letter to the Times protesting against a campaign to exclude future women medical students from London hospitals.

A couple of years after this BH began a steady flow of letters to the Times on the topic of women's suffrage: the last of these, written on 2 February 1927, was the plea or...