The Honourable Ladies: Volume I

Profiles of Women MPs 1918–1996

Iain Dale, Jacqui Smith

• Publisher: Biteback Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781785902444
• eBook ISBN: 9781785904493
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

FOREWORD BY PRIME MINISTER THERESA MAYWhen Constance Markievicz stood for election as MP for Dublin St Patrick's in 1918, few people believed she could win the seat – yet she did. A breakthrough in the bitter struggle for female enfranchisement had come earlier that year, followed by a second landmark piece of legislation allowing women to be elected to Parliament – and Markievicz duly became the first female MP. A member of Sinn Féin, she refused to take her seat. She did, however, pave the way for future generations, and only eleven months later, Nancy Astor entered the Commons. A century on from that historic event, 491 women have now passed through the hallowed doors of Parliament.Each one of these pioneers has fought tenaciously to introduce enduring reform, and in doing so has helped revolutionise Britain's political landscape, ensuring that women's contributions are not consigned to the history books.Containing profiles of every woman MP from 1918 to 1996, and with female contributors from Mary Beard to Caroline Lucas, Ruth Davidson to Yvette Cooper and Margaret Beckett to Ann Widdecombe, The Honourable Ladies is an indispensable and illuminating testament to the stories and achievements of these remarkable women.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Foreword by Theresa May
• Preface by Iain Dale
• Preface by Jacqui Smith
• Parliamentary Firsts for Women
• Women in Parliament
• Constance Markievicz, Countess Markievicz – Julia Langdon
• Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor – Nan Sloane
• Margaret Wintringham – Mary Honeyball
• Mabel Philipson – Anne-Marie Trevelyan
• Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl – Anne Mcguire
• Margaret Bondfield – Sally Keeble
• Dorothy Jewson – Annabelle Dickson
• Susan Lawrence – Lyn Brown
• Lady Vera Terrington – Liz Barker
• Ellen Wilkinson – Estelle Morris
• Gwendolen Guinness, Countess of Iveagh – Thérèse Coffey
• Hilda Runciman – Julia Goldsworthy
• Ruth Dalton – Dame Mary Beard
• Jennie Lee – Elizabeth Vallance
• Ethel Bentham – Cat Smith
• Mary Agnes Hamilton – Elizabeth Vallance
• Lady Megan Lloyd George – Kirsty Williams
• Lady Cynthia Mosley – Ruth Smeeth
• Marion Phillips – Mary Honeyball
• Edith Picton-Turbervill – Jane Merrick
• Eleanor Rathbone – Rachel Reeves & Mary Reader
• Lady Lucy Noel-Buxton – Oonagh Gay
• Dame Leah Manning – Emily Thornberry
• Thelma Cazalet-Keir – Shazia Awan-Scully
• Ida Copeland – Sarah Mackinlay
• Marjorie Graves – Sarah Mackinlay
• Dame Florence Horsbrugh – Ruth Davidson
• Mary Pickford – Kemi Badenoch
• Norah Runge – Oonagh Gay
• Helen Shaw – Elaine Gibb
• Mavis Tate – Janet Seaton
• Dame Irene Ward – Edwina Currie
• Sarah Ward – Oonagh Gay
• Frances Davidson, Viscountess Davidson – Anne Jenkin
• Agnes Hardie – Anne Mcguire
• Edith Summerskill – Yvette Cooper
• Jennie Adamson – Linda Gilroy
• Beatrice Wright – Sarah Newton
• Lady Violet Apsley – Pam Chesters
• Alice Bacon – Rachel Reeves
• Bessie Braddock – Maria Eagle
• Barbara Castle – Anne Perkins
• Grace Colman – Jagruti Dave
• Freda Corbet – Elizabeth Vallance
• Caroline Ganley – Julia Langdon
• Barbara Ayrton-Gould – Kathryn Perera
• Peggy Herbison – Elizabeth Vallance
• Jean Mann – Ayesha Hazarika
• Lucy Middleton – Linda Gilroy
• Muriel Nichol – Linda Mcdougall
• Florence Paton – Nan Sloane
• Mabel Ridealgh – Linda Perham
• Clarice Shaw – Meg Munn
• Edith Wills – Kathryn Stanczyszyn
• Priscilla Buchan, Lady Tweedsmuir – Dame Anne Begg
• Alice Cullen – Sarah Mackinlay
• Elaine Burton – Colleen Fletcher
• Eveline Hill – Natalie Bennett
• Dame Patricia Hornsby-Smith – Angela Browning
• Dorothy Rees – Julie Morgan
• Eirene White – Jane Merrick
• Harriet Slater – Ruth Smeeth
• Patricia Ford – Sarah Mackinlay
• Dame Edith Pitt – Gisela Stuart
• Lena Jeger – Sarah Hayward
• Joyce Butler – Lynne Featherstone
• Evelyn Emmet – Nusrat Ghani
• Patricia Mclaughlin – Annabelle Dickson
• Dame Joan Vickers – Janet Fookes
• Mervyn Pike – Edwina Currie
• Lady Muriel Gammans – Oonagh Gay
• Mary Mcalister – Ann Mckechin
• Betty Harvie Anderson – Eleanor Laing
• Dame Judith Hart – Margaret Beckett
• Margaret Thatcher – Virginia Bottomley
• Joan Quennell – Claire Perry
• Anne Kerr – Natalie Bennett
• Margaret Mckay – Zoe Williams
• Renée Short – Emma Reynolds
• Shirley Summerskill – Linda Mcdougall
• Shirley Williams – Jacqui Smith & Elizabeth Vallance
• Gwyneth Dunwoody – Laura Sandys
• Jill Knight – Gisela Stuart
• Joan Lestor – Fiona Mactaggart
• Winnie Ewing – Deborah Mattinson
• Bernadette Devlin – Julia Langdon
• Dame Peggy Fenner – Tracey Crouch
• Doris Fisher – Baroness Christine Crawley
• Janet Fookes – Bridie Pearson-Jones
• Joan Hall – Linda Mcdougall
• Mary Holt – Linda Mcdougall
• Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman – Cat Smith
• Constance Monks – Linda Mcdougall
• Sally Oppenheim-Barnes – Jo-Anne Nadler
• Betty Boothroyd – Nusrat Ghani
• Margo Macdonald – Joanna Cherry
• Lynda Chalker – Esther Mcvey
• Maureen Colquhoun – Sally Keeble
• Jo Richardson – Joyce Gould
• Audrey Wise – Mary Honeyball
• Margaret Ewing – Jo Swinson
• Helene Hayman – Sarah Childs
• Dame Margaret Beckett – Gillian Merron
• Joan Maynard – Louise Haigh
• Millie Miller – Linda Perham
• Ann Taylor – Justine Lancaster
• Oonagh Mcdonald – Polly Billington
• Sheila Faith – Shazia Awan-Scully
• Sheila Wright – Natalie Bennett
• Dame Angela Rumbold – Elizabeth Peacock
• Harriet Harman – Scarlett Mccgwire
• Helen Mcelhone – Bridie Pearson-Jones
• Edwina Currie – Nadine Dorries
• Anna Mccurley – Annabel Goldie
• Elizabeth Peacock – Linda Mcdougall
• Dame Marion Roe – Meg Munn
• Clare Short – Holly Lynch
• Ann Winterton – Carole Walker
• Virginia Bottomley – Kitty Ussher
• Ann Clwyd – Sarah Mackinlay
• Elizabeth Shields – Susan Kramer
• Llin Golding – Ruth Smeeth
• Rosie Barnes – Miranda Green
• Diane Abbott – Kate Osamor
• Hilary Armstrong – Julie Elliott
• Maria Fyfe – Helena Kennedy
• Mildred Gordon – Rushanara Ali
• Teresa Gorman – Nicky Morgan
• Maureen Hicks – Lucy Fisher
• Alice Mahon – Caroline Lucas
• Ray Michie – Alison Suttie
• Mo Mowlam – Julia Langdon
• Emma Nicholson – Elinor Goodman
• Dawn Primarolo – Karin Smyth
• Joyce Quin – Sharon Hodgson
• Dame Joan Ruddock – Vicky Foxcroft
• Gillian Shephard – Elizabeth Truss
• Joan Walley – Mary Honeyball
• Ann Widdecombe – Dame Cheryl Gillan
• Kate Hoey – Linda Mcdougall
• Sylvia Heal – Sue Hayman
• Irene Adams – Fiona Millar
• Janet Anderson – Carolyn Quinn
• Angela Browning – Suzanne Evans
• Anne Campbell – Amber de Botton
• Judith Chaplin – Julie Kirkbride
• Ann Coffey – Ann Clwyd
• Jean Corston – Thangam Debbonaire
• Angela Eagle – Jacqui Smith
• Dame Cheryl Gillan – Sarah Newton
• Glenda Jackson – Tulip Siddiq
• Helen Jackson – Angela Smith
• Lynne Jones – Caroline Lucas
• Tessa Jowell – Helen Hayes
• Jane Kennedy – Luciana Berger
• Angela Knight – Maggie Throup
• Jacqui Lait – Amber de Botton
• Liz Lynne – Caroline Pidgeon
• Lady Olga Maitland – Ann Widdecombe
• Estelle Morris – Jess Phillips
• Bridget Prentice – Heidi Alexander
• Barbara Roche – Catherine West
• Rachel Squire – Oonagh Gay
• Diana Maddock – Olly Grender
• Judith Church – Linda Gilroy
• Dame Margaret Hodge – Meg Hillier
• Helen Liddell – Julia Langdon
• Roseanna Cunningham – Elaine Gibb
• Contributors
• Female MPs Index
• Copyright
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