FIRST WOMAN IN PARLIAMENT.
The good news reached London shortly after lunch on Friday, and in no time half tin newspapers in town were on the telephone securing particulars
and opinions of the new Meinl*er «»l I'mliameni. For Lady Astor has been elected Coalition Member for Plymouth; the first woman M.P. is actually in existence she from whom we hope so much for the cause of the woman citi sen.
We have heard much during her election campaign of Lady Aster’s wit, her charm, her quickness of repartee, but there has ben a kind of conspiracy, one could imagine, on the part of the daily Press to keep us from hearing or considering anything of her serious
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White Ribbon, Volume 26, Issue 309, 18 March 1921, Page 1
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