Major Collections
Personal archives held at The Women's Library include those of Lesley Abdela, Adelaide Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Louisa Garrett Anderson, Margery Corbett Ashby, Lydia Becker, Helen Bentwich, Rosa May Billinghurst, Chili Bouchier, Elsie Bowerman, Josephine Butler, Barbara Cartland, Jill Craigie, Emily Wilding Davison, Charlotte Despard, Emily Faithfull, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Vida Goldstein, Teresa Billington-Greig, Elspeth Howe, Mary Lowndes (see also Artists' Suffrage League Papers), Constance Lytton, Harriet Martineau, Edith How-Martyn, Angela Mason, Hannah More, Helena Normanton, Eleanor Rathbone, Claire Rayner, Sheila Rowbotham, Maude Royden, Beatrice Seear, Baroness Seear, Elaine Showalter, William Thomas Stead, Mary Stott, Louisa Twining and Henry Wilson (British politician).
Organisation and campaign archives include Fawcett Society, Artists' Suffrage League, several sets of papers related to Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, International Alliance of Women, Miss Great Britain, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, National Women's Register, One Parent Families, Gingerbread (charity), campaigns for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, International Council of Women, Open Door Council, Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service, Six Point Group, Women's Freedom League, Women in Black UK, National Federation of Women's Institutes, Women's National Anti-Suffrage League, and Women's Tax Resistance League.
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