Stella Isaacs Marchioness of Reading

Standard Name: Reading, Stella Isaacs,,, Marchioness of

Used Form: Lady Reading

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1938

Lady Reading founded the Women's Voluntary Service for Civil Defence (WVS). At the onset of World War Two, the WVS had 500,000 volunteers.

Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.

498

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

21 October 1958

The Life Peerages Act expanded the House of Lords to include, as well as holders of hereditary titles, public figures honoured with life peerages which would not descend to their children.

Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.

414

Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914 - 1959. Macmillan Education, 1992.

298

Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.

United Kingdom Parliament. http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/.

“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

under Reading

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