“The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
Women's Library
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Textual Production | Kate Parry Frye | 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's archive, scattered throughout England, contains not only unpublished play typescripts but also an Organiser's Report Book of suffrage work kept from 25 April 1912 to 28 July 1914... |
Textual Production | Maude Royden | 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. “Papers of Ursula Roberts”. AIM25. London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library. |
Textual Production | Mary Stott | She called herself a writing woman, and though in her newspaper career she was most famously an editor, she was a columnist and commentator by choice. She declared her preference for writing with an... |
Textual Production | E. M. Hull | A newly-available archive of EMH
's papers at the Women's Library
includes a complete set of her printed works (copies presented to her daughter), contracts covering published, film, and theatre rights, and what is believed... |
Textual Production | Ray Strachey | The Hannah Whitall Smith Papers, held at the Lilly Library
, Indiana University
, Bloomington, contain over 4,500 of RS
's letters, most of which were written to her mother. Meneghel, Meg A. “’Dear Mother’: Ray Strachey’s Role in Feminism and the League of Nations as Seen from the Lilly Library”. Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: Peace, Politics, and Education, edited by Wayne K. Chapman and Janet M. Manson, Pace University Press, pp. 87-95. 87-8 |
Textual Production | Kathleen E. Innes | The following are also useful resources for work on Innes: the Scottish Women's Hospital
records in the Fawcett Library
, the Hampshire Record Office
, the Andover Advertiser (Andover and vicinity newspaper) archives, and the... |
Textual Production | Constance Lytton | CL
's letters and papers are mostly at institutions in London. Her manuscript account of her prison experiences, with other papers, is in the Museum of London
. Her letters to Arthur James Balfour |
Textual Production | Susan Miles | The Bodleian Library
holds SM
's wartime journal and an unpublished memoir; the Women's Library
holds other papers (including correspondence with Maude Royden
). “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Textual Production | Eunice Guthrie Murray | EGM
kept a diary from her youth. She recorded on 9 November 1896 her desire to belong to the recently-founded National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Christabel Pankhurst | Important archival collections on CP
and the suffrage struggle are to be found at the Women's Library
, formerly the Fawcett Library. Castle, Barbara. Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. Penguin. 110, 157, 159 “The Women’s Library”. London Metropolitan University. |
Textual Production | Josephine Butler | The University of Liverpool
holds the Josephine Butler Collections, an archive which comprises among other things articles, manuscripts, books, and photographs. The Women's Library
, which houses the Josephine Butler Society
Library, also has... |
Textual Production | Emmeline Pankhurst | The Fawcett Library
(now the Women's Library) in London houses the Suffrage archives, including many of EP
's papers. A sound recording about her, originally an Argo
long-playing record, contains a reminiscence by Sybil Thorndike |
Textual Production | Sylvia Pankhurst | Important archival collections of SP
' writings are held at the Women's Library
in London, and at the Institute of Social History
in Amsterdam. Castle, Barbara. Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. Penguin. 159 |
Textual Production | Barbara Cartland | An unpublished manuscript, How I Want to be Remembered, is apparently a summary statement covering her romantic life, her output of fiction, and her work as a social activist, facilitating wartime weddings and the... |
Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | The Women's Library
holds papers of FPC
including contributions to several archives of letters. Particularly interesting is a scrapbook of cuttings, cartoons, etc. (mostly on the suffrage struggle, dating from 1893-1913). Cobbe gave this volume... |
Timeline
16 December 1845: The foundation-stone was laid for the Whitechapel...
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16 December 1845
The foundation-stone was laid for the Whitechapel Public Baths
in a poor area of East London, as part of the movement for public hygiene.
1861: Maria Rye established the Female Middle Class...
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1861
Maria Rye
established the Female Middle Class Emigration Society
in response to the scarcity of jobs in England for girls and women.
December 1903: Australian feminist and suffragist Vida Goldstein...
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December 1903
Australian feminist and suffragist Vida Goldstein
became the first woman in the British Empire to run for a national parliament, standing for the Senate while two other Australian women stood for the House of Representatives...
4 March 1912: Gertrude Wilkinson received a medal from...
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4 March 1912
Gertrude Wilkinson
received a medal from the Women's Social and Political Union
to commemorate her endurance of hunger strike and forcible feeding.
17 November 1922: Feminist and suffragist Helena Normanton...
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17 November 1922
Feminist and suffragist Helena Normanton
(1882-1957) became the the second woman called to the English bar; she was the first woman to practise as a barrister in the High Court of Justice
.
31 January 1926: The Women's Service Library, later known...
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31 January 1926
The Women's Service Library
, later known as the Fawcett Library
, and presently known as the Women's Library
, was established.
31 October 1944: The Women's Press Club held its first annual...
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31 October 1944
The Women's Press Club
held its first annual general meeting, with Lady Rhondda
as president.
14 August 1975: The Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company was...
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14 August 1975
The Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company
was founded in London by female and male performers, many of whom had already worked with the Women's Street Theatre Company
or the Women's Theatre Company
.
By September 1976: South Asian women (called by the media strikers...
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By September 1976
South Asian women (called by the media strikers in saris) went on strike at Grunwick Film Processing
plant in Willesden, North London.
1998: The British Heritage Lottery Fund made a...
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1998
The British Heritage Lottery Fund
made a grant of 4.2 million pounds towards a much-needed new building for the Women's Library
, formerly the Fawcett Library
.
7 October 1999: Conservationists from the Museum of London...
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7 October 1999
Conservationists from the Museum of London
opened a Victorian time capsule found in building the new home of the Women's Library
in East London.
15, 17 June 2011: The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) released...
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15, 17 June 2011
The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
released a digitized version of documents, photos, banners, and personal mementoes from the struggle of British women for suffrage, housed at the Women's Library
and the British parliamentary
archives.
Doherty, Teresa. Emails to the Women’s History Network.
28 September 2012: A press release announced that the Women's...
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28 September 2012
A press release announced that the Women's Library
, given notice to quit its purpose-built premises by London Metropolitan University
, was to move to a new, central location under the auspices of the London...
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