Women's Library

Her husband was a wealthy Anglo-Irish businessman and merchant trading to the Far East, with an office in London and experience abroad. Though he was only five years older than she was, and lived for...

Her daughter Antonia Byatt , born in Durham on 13 April 1960, was the first Director of the Women's Library before moving on in September 2007 to become literature director of Arts Council England .

Another close though distant friend (she lived latterly in Scotland) was the male impersonator Vera (Jack) Holme , who had been an active suffragist (driving cars for the Pankhursts and Pethwick-Lawrences) and then a relief...

Courtney and Royden served together as executive members of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) , of which in 1911 Courtney became secretary. They also worked together as vice-chairs for the Women's International League (WIL)

Murray and Garrett Anderson had already been running a similar hospital in Paris. At Endell Street their staff, all women, treated 24,000 soldiers as in-patients and many more as out-patients before the hosptial closed at...

EPL began to be active in the Working Girls' Club of the MethodistWest London Mission .

EPL 's involvement in the militant suffrage movement was necessarily controversial: contemporaries both lauded and reviled her. In her diary Virginia Woolf described EPL 's style of public speaking in 1918 with some disdain. I...

The archive of the Movement for the Ordination of Woman to Priesthood in the Anglican Church in England (MOW) is now held by the Women's Library in London.

EGM was made an MBE in 1945. Her journals are privately owned by her collateral descendants. A scrapbook now in the Women's Library in London contains EGM 's collection of suffrage newspaper cuttings; since an...

Major collections of ER 's papers are held at Liverpool University and the Women's Library in London (formerly the Fawcett Library ).

Many of AR 's papers are in family hands. Her letters to Wells are at the University of Illinois , and the Women's Library holds the text of two interviews with her.

The Women's Library and the Northern Ireland Public Record Office both hold collections of CD 's papers. The Northern Ireland PRO has held since 1969 a series of personal diaries dating from 1913-1926, as well...

NES spoke about her life and work at the Women's Library in London.

Elizabeth Crawford notes that KPF 's archive, scattered throughout England, contains not only unpublished play typescripts but also an Organiser's Report Book of suffrage work kept from 25 April 1912 to 28 July 1914...

The Women's Library holds most of MR 's papers (including a folder of correspondence with Ursula Roberts, the writer Susan Miles), while the British Library , Lambeth Palace Library , and the Bodleian Library hold some letters.