Here is a series of blog posts about a South Yorkshire socialist councillor and campaigner who also happened to be born into the aristocracy. It's quite a story!
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Part One. The Public Life of Lady Mabel Smith: An Introduction, including sources consulted
Lady Mabel Smith was born in 1870 into one of the wealthiest aristocratic families in England – the Fitzwilliams – but, defying the expectations and conventions of her class and sex, she beca…
