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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 79. Chapters: Emily Davison, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, Dorothea Beale, Rebecca West, Annie Besant, Constance Lytton, Constance Markiewicz, Emily Hobhouse, Annie Shepherd Swan, Ellen Wilkinson, Helen Bright Clark, Eleanor Marx, Sylvia Pankhurst, Victor Horsley, Elizabeth Thompson, Flora Drummond, Mary Sophia Allen, Elizabeth Robins, Ethel Smyth, John Cartwright, Eleanor Rathbone, Anna Doyle Wheeler, Annie Kenney, Lydia Becker, Mona Caird, Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge, Margaret Bondfield, Edith Pechey, Evelina Haverfield, Margaret Bright Lucas, Marion Gilchrist, Winifred Holtby, Ursula Mellor Bright, Teresa Billington-Greig, Edith Rigby, Helena Swanwick, Dora Marsden, Dora Montefiore, Norah Elam, Charlotte Despard, Harriet Shaw Weaver, Anne Knight, Rosika Schwimmer, Mary Richardson, Eva Gore-Booth, Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks, Edith How-Martyn, Margaret McCoubrey, Cicely Hamilton, Kay Beauchamp, Elsie Bowerman, Frances Parker, Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda, Mary Crudelius, Lizzie Caswall Smith, Ada Nield Chew, Anne Clough, Flora Murray, Margaret Cole, Joan Beauchamp, Mary Lowndes, Esther Roper, Sybil Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda, Sophia Duleep Singh, Annie Knight, Ethel Bentham, Elizabeth Andrews, Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle, Mary Neal, Alice Wheeldon, Marion Wallace Dunlop, Ethel Snowden, Margaret Nevinson, Leonora Cohen. Excerpt: Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH, (19 May 1879 - 2 May 1964) was the first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the British House of Commons. Nancy Astor represented the Conservative Party and was the wife of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor. Astor was born Nancy Witcher Langhorne in Danville, Virginia, in the United States. Her father was Chiswell Dabney Langhorne and her mother was Nancy Witcher Keene. Her father's earlier business venture had...
