
Constance Markievicz: The First Woman MP
The first woman elected to Westminster wasn’t Nancy Astor – it was a socialist, feminist, republican and revolutionary named Constance Markievicz.
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Mary McAuliffe is a historian and an assistant professor of Gender Studies at University College Dublin (UCD).
The first woman elected to Westminster wasn’t Nancy Astor – it was a socialist, feminist, republican and revolutionary named Constance Markievicz.