Dorothy Jewson

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British teacher, trade union organizer and Labour Party politician (1884-1964)

United Kingdom PoliticiansLived 1884 to 1964 · aged 79

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Dorothea Jewson, better known as Dorothy Jewson, was a British teacher, trade union organiser, Labour Party politician, and one of her party's first female Members of Parliament.

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Dorothea Jewson, better known as Dorothy Jewson, was a British teacher, trade union organiser, Labour Party politician, and one of her party's first female Members of Parliament. Whilst at Girton College, Cambridge, she joined socialist organisations including the Independent Labour Party, and went on to campaign for Women's Suffrage in Norwich. She became the "Chief Organiser" of the women's section of National Union of General Workers, before leaving to work as a housemaid at a London hotel, investigating the working conditions there.

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