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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Margery Corbett Ashby
Margery Corbett Ashby
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Friends, Associates
Mary Agnes Hamilton
Many of
MAH
's friends were drawn from
Things that Matter
or
Political
: from the latter came her admiring friendship for
Marion Rowntree (later Wilkinson)
. Her three closest friends were
Jacqueta Northcote
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Later 1928
After the Representation of the People Act made women electorally equal,
Eva Hubback
and
Margery Corbett Ashby
founded the
National Union of Guilds for Citizenship
(later the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds).