Women's Library

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. Other RS correspondence...

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 . Her diaries have recently been made accessible in...

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

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)

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 .

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...