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Katharine Stewart-Murray, the Duchess of Atholl, was the first Scottish woman MP, the first Conservative woman minister, and the only opponent of appeasement brave enough to put her beliefs to the electorate. Through war nursing and charity work she was one of the most prominent women in Scotland by the time she was elected MP for Kinross and West Perthshire in 1923.

Her political life was full of apparent contradictions: the critic of Soviet and Nazi tyranny who opposed self-government for India, the trailblazing female politician who campaigned against votes for women, the Tory who spoke alongside communists, and the shy public speaker dubbed the 'Red Duchess’ who travelled the world to fundraise for Spanish refugees. As a 21st century audience rediscovers its female pioneers, it is time to remember the politician who paid the highest political price for her refusal to play by the rules.

• Author: Amy Gray
• ISBN: 9781803996455
  
• Hardback, Biography
• Illustrated