‘I Stuck to Plymouth, Plymouth Stuck to Me’: Nancy Astor, Electioneering and Female Parliamentary Candidacy
In November 1919, Nancy Astor won a Plymouth Sutton by-election, becoming the first woman MP to take her seat in the House of Commons. Astor was MP from 1919 to 1945 and won seven elections in total. A vast amount of material has been written on Astor’s 1919 election campaign given its historical si...
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Open Library of Humanities
2020-09-01
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| Series: | Open Library of Humanities |
| Online Access: | https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4644/ |