Women's Library

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

An unpublished manuscript, How I Want to be Remembered, is apparently a summary statement covering her romantic life, her output of fiction, and her work as a social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

Important archival collections of SP ' writings are held at the Women's Library in London, and at the Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.

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...

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...

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...

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

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 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...

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 .