Women's Library

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 .

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...

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)

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...

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 .

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...

The Women's Library holds most of MR 's papers (including a folder of correspondence with Ursula Roberts, the writer Susan Miles), while the British Library , Lambeth Palace Library , and the Bodleian Library hold some letters.

Many of AR 's papers are in family hands. Her letters to Wells are at the University of Illinois , and the Women's Library holds the text of two interviews with her.

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...

Major collections of ER 's papers are held at Liverpool University and the Women's Library in London (formerly the Fawcett Library ).

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...