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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Eleanor Davies-Colley
Eleanor Davies-Colley
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Davies-Colley, Eleanor
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Harriet Shaw Weaver
HSW
, recruited by her cousin
Eleanor Davies-Colley
, worked for the East End's
Invalid Children's Aid Association
as a case-worker.
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Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson.
Dear Miss Weaver
. Viking, 1970.
35 and n2
Occupation
Harriet Shaw Weaver
HSW
was honorary secretary of the
South London Hospital for Women and Children
's fundraising campaign, headed by surgeons
Eleanor Davies-Colley
(her cousin) and
Maud Chadburn
.
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Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson.
Dear Miss Weaver
. Viking, 1970.
45-6
“Wellcome Library”.
The Wellcome Trust
.
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1911
The
Royal College of Surgeons
admitted its first woman,
Eleanor Davies-Colley
, who later founded the
South London Hospital for Women and Children
.