William Waldorf Astor

Standard Name: Astor, William Waldorf

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Family and Intimate relationships	Vita Sackville-West	As the love cooled between VSW 's parents, her mother began a series of probably platonic relationships with older, wealthy men. Her long-time companion Sir John Murray Scott (known to her and Vita as Seery...

The Pall Mall Magazine began monthly publication; it ran until September 1914.

Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

William Waldorf Astor bought the Observer newspaper (founded in 1791) from Lord Northcliffe for £5,000.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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Nancy, Lady Astor (Conservative and Unionist Party ), became the first woman Member of Parliament to sit in the House of Commons .

Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.

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Craig, Fred W. S. British Electoral Facts 1832-1987. 5th ed., Parliamentary Research Services, 1989.

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Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.

Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914 - 1959. Macmillan Education, 1992.

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Jack, Ian. “The Best Stuff”. London Review of Books, Vol.

, No. 11, 2 June 2016, pp. 33-7.

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