Express Levering Nancy The Story of Lady Astor – Adrian Fort

“In 1919, Nancy Astor became the first woman to take a seat in Parliament. She was not what had been expected. Far from a virago who had suffered for the cause of female suffrage, she was already near the centre of the ruling society that had for so long resisted the political upheavals of the early twentieth century, having married into the family of one of the richest men in the world. She was not even British. Yet she would prove to be a trailblazer and beacon for the generations of women who would follo…