sentences:  The family moved to Wolverhampton, where she later became a schoolteacher.A Methodist lay preacher, she was initially a Liberal, but joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in 1917.Under her maiden name of Florence Widdowson, she first stood for Parliament at the Cheltenham by-election in 1928, and at the 1929 general election, she contested the Rushcliffe constituency in Nottinghamshire.