Talk:Ida Copeland

Memorial window
This may be the memorial window referred to in the article; it may also be described by Peter Beacham (2014) as "by J. Hall, a striking angel at the empty tomb".--Johnsoniensis (talk) 14:46, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Dubious statement in article lead
The lead section concludes by stating that Ida Copeland "was one of the earliest women to join Parliament, sitting as a Conservative MP for Stoke on Trent from 1931–35". I think this claim is stretching the idea of earliest to the point where it could be argued to be misleading. She was elected nearly 13 years after Constance Markievicz (who admittedly never took her seat), and 12 years after Nancy Astor. Indeed by the time Copeland was elected several women had served in the house of commons, many elected in the 1920s. Indeed Margaret Bondfield had served as a cabinet minister, and Copeland's predecessor as Stoke's MP had been a woman, Lady Cynthia Mosley. If the statement is trying to say that she was one of the earliest Conservative MPs, then a) the wording does not make this clear, and b) this is still a debatable use of "earliest" given that Astor was elected as a Conservative in 1919 and following that 3 other Conservative women had served in Parliament in the 1920s, notably the Duchess of Atholl who had been elected in 1923 and had held junior ministerial office. Also Copeland was one of a group of 13 Conservative women in parliament after the 1931 election. My instinct is to remove the "one of the earliest women to join Parliament" claim, but would like to seek other views.Dunarc (talk) 19:35, 8 January 2020 (UTC)