Dorothy Jewson, born in Norwich in 1884, was a controversial figure: a suffragette, a pacifist, one of the first female Members of Parliament in the UK, and a tireless worker for the disadvantaged, especially women. Dorothy, a member of the well-known Jewson family of Norwich, studied at the Norwich High School for Girls and then Girton College, Cambridge: it was at Girton that she came under the thrall of the two ideas that were to give purpose to her life: Socialism and Feminism. She played an important role in the battle to obtain the vote for women and was one of the first members of the...
Dorothy Jewson, born in Norwich in 1884, was a controversial figure: a suffragette, a pacifist, one of the first female Members of Parliament in the U...
