Women’s Voices and Life Writing, 1600-1968

Highlights

• More than 80 interviews with women who were associated with the London Brick Company. Including a number from India and Europe, sharing their experiences of migrating and working in the UK in the mid-twentieth century
• Chevalier d’Eon papers; a celebrated eighteenth century soldier, diplomat, and spy, Chevalier d’Eon lived openly as a man and woman in France and England at different stages of their life. The collection includes correspondence, diaries and accounts documenting the daily life and social circle of d’Eon, and an annotated guard book of press clippings revealing their fame and notoriety at the time
• Letters and telegrams written between 1934 and 1937 by Marguerite Radclyffe Hall to her lover Evguenia Souline, a Russian émigré nurse
• Papers of Sophia Duleep Singh, an Indian princess and prominent suffragette whose family were exiled to England after their kingdom was annexed by the British in the 1840s
• Letters from Elizabeth Garrett Anderson dated 1860 to 1867, describing her efforts to pursue a career as a doctor
• Eighteenth century commonplace books of Elizabeth Morgan, who lived in Anglesey and meticulously recorded her household and gardening activities
• ‘Meditations’ of Lady Anne Halkett, detailing political events and theological disputes of the 1670s to 1690s
• Diaries of Isabella Twysden, one of which includes an eye-witness account of the execution of Charles I