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Quakers, supported the party by writing letters to newspapers as well as briefings and other documentation on the party's goals and to increase its profile. She served as the party's first press officer. Firth joined the current affairs essay magazine,
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in 1976. She is credited with aiding to convince UK legislators, and policy makers, on the importance of women's equality in employment and all other aspects of life. She co-authored
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113:(1964). Her husband, Tony Firth, a Cambridge graduate as well, was a journalist and broadcaster. They had one son and one daughter. The couple moved to
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