Margaret Hilda Thatcher

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the autumn of
1943. During her years here, Margaret worked in a canteen for the war effort,
continued her interest in music by joining various choirs and joined the Oxford
University Conservative Association where she became very active in it's
political activities.
After Oxford, Margaret became the youngest female candidate of the
Dartford Association. She was unofficially engaged to Denis Thatcher at this
time, and they married in December 1951. Twins were born the following year.
During this period, she studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1954. In the
same year she was a candidate for the Oysington Conservative Association.
Margaret won in a Tory landslide at Finchley, a suburb of London in 1959.
Her parliamentary career had begun. A stroke of good luck gave her the
opportunity of presenting her first bill almost immediately. This bill was to
allow the press to attend the meetings of the local councils. The bill was
eventually passed and it greatly enhanced her ...

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leader of the Conservative Party in November 1990, after loosing
the support of the party. She remained in the House of Commons until 1992. In
the same year, Thatcher was made a Baroness by the queen and became a member of
the House of Lords.
Abse, author of "Margaret daughter of Beatrice" paints an entirely
different picture of Thatcher's family background. In his psycho-biography, he
describes Margaret's mother as strict, cold and unloving. He states that this
resulted in her being narcissistic, aggressive, and a workaholic, as well as
being attracted to money. Thatcher has claimed to owe everything to her father,
and at no point does she acknowledge her mother's contribution. Abse ...

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