Nancy Witcher, Viscountess Astor

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

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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/.
politics Ray Strachey
RS volunteered as parliamentary secretary and advisor to Lady Astor , the first woman Member of Parliament to sit in the House of Commons .
Lady Astor was elected on 1 December 1919.
Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books.
287
Textual Production Susan Tweedsmuir
This was one of a series conceived by Hilda Matheson , during the desperate conditions of the second world war, offering information about Britain and its colonies (this series was a smaller subset of Britain...

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