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.
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 Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
“Papers of Ursula Roberts”. AIM25. London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
Occupation
Elizabeth Robins
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...
Some sources, for instance the website of the Women's Library
, date her work with the club as...
Reception
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
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...
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
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
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Her diaries have recently been made accessible in...
Reception
Eunice Guthrie Murray
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...
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...
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...
7 October 1999: Conservationists from the Museum of London...
Writing climate item
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...
Women writers item
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...