Women's Library

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...

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 .

An unpublished manuscript, How I Want to be Remembered, is apparently a summary statement covering her romantic life, her output of fiction, and her work as a social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...

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...

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...

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...

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Elizabeth Crawford notes that KPF 's archive, scattered throughout England, contains not only unpublished play typescripts but also an Organiser's Report Book of suffrage work kept from 25 April 1912 to 28 July 1914...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

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...

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...

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

The Bodleian Library holds SM 's wartime journal and an unpublished memoir; the Women's Library holds other papers (including correspondence with Maude Royden ).

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...