My Exit Visa

by Margaret Stansgate (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1992

  $3.25

  Before she died last October at the age of 94, Margaret Stansgate, the mother of Tony Benn and a striking political radical in her own right, had completed work on her memoirs. A lifelong campaigner for the rights of women, she first visited the House of Commons in 1910 at the age of 13, and was allowed into the gallery only after promising not to make any unseemly demonstrations. A pioneer campaigner for a variety of religious and social causes, including the ordination of women and the reconciliation of Christians and Jews, she and her MP husband, Captain William Wedgewood Benn, left the Liberal Party for Labour in 1927 and played an important part in the history of the Labour movement. The title of this book relates to her incessant travelling during which she met and talked to many of the world's leader's ranging from Nasser and Ben Gurion to Prince Rainier and figures in the arts such as Somerset Maugham and Paul Robeson.