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This collection contains letters of prominent correspondents dating from 1851 to 1975. They cover themes such as suffrage, education, medicine, women and the Church, literature, employment, temperance, scholarship, industry, travel and the art. Many of these letters were considered 'Autograph' letters by famous correspondents such as William Gladstone, Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale, the Pankhursts, Annie Besant, Thomas Hardy, Keir Hardie and John Stuart Mill. The entire collection is arranged into 30 groups either by themes mentioned or by individual eg Constance Lytton, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. The collection is a result of various donations of letters to Women’s Service Library (now The Women’s Library) between 1930 and the early 2000s.

Women's Suffrage
General Women's Movement
Female Education, c.1850-1951
Women in Medicine, 1865-1972
Women in the Church, 1913-1963
Literary Ladies, 1881-1959
General and Personal, 1800-1972
Suffrage and Women in Industry
Letters of Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1860-1939
Letters related to William Thomas Stead, 1885-1924
Letters to Miss Louisa Hubbard and others, 1869-1907
Letters to and from Harriet McIlquham, 1881-1909
Letters from Mrs Fawcett To Mrs Badley, 1894-1929
Women's Institute [Club], 1897-1928
Letters and Papers Related to Hannah More, 1774-1833
Women Travellers, 1868-1936
Women in the Arts, 1791-1974
Keir Hardie, the Webbs and Ramsay Macdonald, 1908-1947
Letters to Miss Louisa Hubbard and others
Letters of Constance Lytton, 1908-1916
Scholars and Learned Ladies, 1850-1970
Alix [Alice] von Cotta Letters, 1870-1930
Temperance Work, 1897-1921
Biographical notes by Mrs Billington Greig, c.1950
Taylor Collection, 1910-1964
Letters between Roger Fry and Philippa Strachey
Letters from Ralph Strachey to Philippa Strachey, 1805-1922
Letters to Philippa Strachey from Richard Strachey 1886-1917; and to Philippa Strachey from Oliver Strachey 1906-1912
Ralph Strachey at School 1878-1889; James Strachey at School 1899; Elinor Rendel 1889-1896; Sir Richard Strachey 1889-1899; Pernel Strachey 1891 and 1894-1895
Letters from: Pippa [Philippa Strachey] to her mother 1902/1905 (E/01-10,) Passport 1915; Dorothy Strachey to Pippa 1895-1903; Dorothy Bussy to Pippa 1903-1929; Marjorie Strachey to Pippa 1898-1956; Ray [Strachey] to Pippa 1911-1929
Letters to members of the Strachey family, 1865-1958
Letters from Mlle Souvestre to Mrs JM Strachey, 1870-1896
Lydia Becker correspondence 1836-1890; Posthumous letters etc. concerning Lydia Becker 1890; Lady Lytton's Family Letters 1858-1881
Becker Family Letters, 1816-1957; Letters from Stratton Lodge, home of Eleanor Becker 1881-1895; Letters to Arthur Becker 1881-1921; Family letters 1909-1922, Wilfred Becker, Fanny Price, Esther Becker
Letters of Rosa May Billinghurst and Dr Alice Ker
Letters from various members of the Tabor Family 1830-1877
Eliza Stephenson to John Stephenson, her husband, 1880-1885
Eliza Stephenson to her sister Mary Catherine Tabor, 1843-c.1900
Additional Autograph Letters

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