“Inspirational Women”. ASHA.
Women's Library
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Despard | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | A. S. Byatt | Her daughter Antonia Byatt
, born in Durham on 13 April 1960, was the first Director of the Women's Library |
| Friends, Associates | Edith Craig | 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Maude Royden | 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) |
| 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... |
| Occupation | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
began to be active in the Working Girls' Club
of the MethodistWest London Mission
. Some sources, for instance the website of the Women's Library
, date her work with the club as... |
| Reception | Monica Furlong | 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. |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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 | 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, 1987. 110, 157, 159 “The Women’s Library”. London Metropolitan University. |
| 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 | Charlotte Despard | 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... |
| 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 | Nawal El Saadawi | NES
spoke about her life and work at the Women's Library
in London. “Library welcomes Nawal El Saadawi”. Women’s Library Newsletter, 1 Mar. 2009– 2024. |
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.
“The Women’s Library”. London Metropolitan University.
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.
Wagner, Gillian. Children of the Empire. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982.
40
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
Parkes, Bessie Rayner. “A Review of the Last Six Years”. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Group, edited by Candida Ann Lacey, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2001, pp. 215-22.
220
Women’s Library,. “Appendix 1.4 (1FME): Female Middle Class Emigration Society (FMCES)”. The Women’s Library, 1 Mar. 2006.
1
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.
“Women’s History Month: From the Women’s Library”. Women’s History Network Blog, 4 Mar. 2010.
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
.
Brakeman, Lynne, and Susan Gall, editors. Chronology of Women Worldwide: People, Places and Events that Shaped Women’s History. Gale Research, 1997.
341
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
322
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
Cadman, Eileen et al. Rolling Our Own: Women as Printers, Publishers and Distributors. Minority Press-Group, 1981.
96
“The Women’s Library”. London Metropolitan University.
Buhasz, Laszlo. “Notebook: Women’s Library to reopen in London”. The Globe and Mail, 1 Dec. 2001, p. T12.
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31 October 1944: The Women's Press Club held its first annual...
Women writers item
31 October 1944
The Women's Press Club
held its first annual general meeting, with Lady Rhondda
as president.
“Records of the Women’s Press Club”. AIM25: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
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
.
“Records of The Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company”. AIM25: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
Hanna, Gillian, editor. Monstrous Regiment. Four Plays and a Collective Celebration. Nick Hern Books, 1991.
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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.
Exhibitions and Events, The Women’s Library, Autumn and Winter 2009/10. The Women’s Library, 2009.
Beckett, Andy. “Vuvuzelas Unite”. London Review of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 20, 22 Oct. 2015, pp. 25-8. 25
Pedersen, Susan. “You’re only interested in Hitler, not me”. London Review of Books, Vol.
35
, No. 24, 19 Dec. 2013, pp. 16-18. 17
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
.
“The Women’s Library”. London Metropolitan University.
Buhasz, Laszlo. “Notebook: Women’s Library to reopen in London”. The Globe and Mail, 1 Dec. 2001, p. T12.
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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.
“The Women’s Library”. London Metropolitan University.
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. 15 June 2011.
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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