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Helena Normanton
Standard Name: Normanton, Helena
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23 December 1919: The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act received...
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23 December 1919
The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act received royal assent. It removed restrictions based on sex or marriage which prevented women from entering professions, universities, and civic posts.
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2024.
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Murphy, Gillian. “Newly Available Archives: Papers of Helena Normanton”. Women’s Library Newsletter, 1 Sept.–28 Feb. 2007, p. back page.
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1921: The example of US feminist Lucy Stone (whose...
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1921
The example of US feminist Lucy Stone
(whose wedding to Henry Blackwell
on 1 May 1855 had been designed by the couple to assert equality, and who had fought to keep her birth name once...
March 1922: Good Housekeeping, a monthly magazine dealing...
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March 1922
Good Housekeeping, a monthly magazine dealing with domestic topics, began publication by National Magazine
at 72 Broadwick Street, London.
Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
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Ferguson, Marjorie. Forever Feminine: Women’s Magazines and the Cult of Femininity. Heinemann, 1983.
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White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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May 1922: Dr Ivy Williams became the first woman called...
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May 1922
Dr Ivy Williams
became the first woman called to the English bar after the legal profession was opened to women by the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 23 December 1919.
Beddoe, Deirdre. Back to Home and Duty: Women Between the Wars, 1918-1939. Pandora, 1989.
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“Palmer’s Index to the Times”. Historical Newspapers Online.
(April-June 1922): 506
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
17 November 1922: Feminist and suffragist Helena Normanton...
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17 November 1922
Feminist and suffragist Helena Normanton
(1882-1957) became the the second woman called to the English bar; she was the first woman to practise as a barrister in the High Court of Justice
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Brakeman, Lynne, and Susan Gall, editors. Chronology of Women Worldwide: People, Places and Events that Shaped Women’s History. Gale Research, 1997.
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