British Socialites - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, Quentin Crisp, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Michele Renouf, Gloria Guinness, Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, Elizabeth Montagu, Amanda Eliasch, Olive, Lady Baillie (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, Quentin Crisp, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Michele Renouf, Gloria Guinness, Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, Elizabeth Montagu, Amanda Eliasch, Olive, Lady Baillie, Emmanuel Ray, Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, Elizabeth Vesey, Maria Kinnaird, Maiko Jeong Shun Lee, Viscountess Rothermere, Ghislaine Alexander, Sir Michael Duff, 3rd Baronet, Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, Dorothy Wilde, Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry, Venetia Stanley, Amelia Stewart, Viscountess Castlereagh, Liza Campbell, Dolores Guinness, Emily Lamb, Lady Cowper, Daisy Fellowes, Daisy, Princess of Pless, Helen Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon, Pauline Karpidas, Pixie Geldof, Serena Armstrong-Jones, Viscountess Linley, Tara Browne, Duff Twysden, Margaret Greville, Jeanne Campbell, Frances Anne Crewe, June Tripp, Elizabeth Rees-Williams, Ann Parker Bowles, Lady Caroline Paget, Robert Gould Shaw III. 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 depended at least in part upon slave labour, and the outcome of the American Civil War caused the family to live in near-poverty for several years before Nancy was born. After her birth her father began working to regain the family wealth, first with a job as an auctioneer and later with a job that he obtained with the railroad by using old contacts from his work as a contractor. By the...