Nancy Witcher, Viscountess Astor

Standard Name: Astor, Nancy Witcher,,, Viscountess
Used Form: Lady Nancy Astor

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Literary responses Freya Stark
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...
Friends, Associates Freya Stark
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 .
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House.
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Employer Ray Strachey
RS held the first of her full-time employment positions to carry a salary, as Lady Astor 's political secretary.
Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books.
299-300, n334
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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