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When suffragette Emily Wilding Davison hid overnight in the Houses of Parliament in 1911 to have her name recorded in the census there, she may not have known that there were sixty-seven other women also resident in Parliament that night: housekeepers, kitchen maids, and wives and daughters living in households. This book is their story.
Women have touched just about every aspect of life in Parliament. From 'Jane', dispenser of beer, pies and chops in Bellamy's legendary refreshment rooms; to May Ashworth, Official Typist to Parliament for thirty years through marriage, war and divorce; and Jean Winder, the first female Hansard reporter, who fought for years for equal pay; the lives of these women have been largely unacknowledged - until now.
Drawing on new research from the Parliamentary Archives, government records and family history sources, historians and parliamentary insiders Mari Takayanagi and Elizabeth Hallam Smith bring these unsung heroes to life. They chart the changing context for working women within and beyond the Palace of Westminster, uncovering women left out of the history books - including Mary Jane Anderson, a previously unknown suffragette.
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Contents
List of Illustrations
Prologue
1 The Chaotic World of the Old Palace of Westminster: Meet the Women
2 Ellen Manners Sutton: Scandal at the Speaker's House
3 Woman in Charge: Jane Julia Bennett, House of Lords Housekeeper
4 Catering for the Members: Jane, Goddess of Bellamy's
5 The Admirable Mrs Gully and her Gallery
6 'Losing their Reason': Eliza Arscot and her Fellow Housekeepers
7 The Ever-Youthful Miss Ashworth: Typing Comes to Parliament
8 For One Night Only? Emily Wilding Davison in the Cupboard
9 A Wartime Innovation: The Girl Porters
10 The Monstrous Regiment: Women Managers in the Lords
11 Miss Bell and her Bell: The Later Housekeepers
12 Expert Shots and Dragons: Parliament at War
13 'Girl Clerk In Commons'!
14 Hansard and the Battle for Equal Pay
15 The Strain of Carrying Ladders: The Library and Archives
Epilogue
Thanks and Acknowledgements
Sources and Further Reading
Notes
