Autograph Letter Collection: Strachey Letters 1805-1962

Bondfield, Margaret, 1873-1953

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Margaret Grace Bondfield CH PC (17 March 1873 – 16 June 1953) was a British Labour politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be a privy counsellor in the UK, when she was appointed Minister of Labour in the Labour government of 1929–31. She had earlier become the first woman to chair the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC). Bondfield was born in humble circumstances and received limited formal ed...

Strachey Ralph 1868-1923

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Strachey, Oliver, 1874-1960.

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Furse, Katharine, 1875-1952

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Epithet: GBE British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000388.0x00001b ...

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

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Virginia Woolf (b. January 25, 1882, London, England–d. March 28, 1941, Ouse, River, Englnad) was a noted novelist and is now viewed as a pioneer of feminist literature. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, comprised of English artists, philosophers, and writers in the early twentieth century. She was also a co-founder and operator (along with husband Leonard Woolf) of Hogarth Press. Though she received little formal education, her father, a writer and editor with strong ...

Stocks, Mary D. (Mary Danvers), 1891-1975

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Epithet: Baroness Stocks British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000787.0x00019a ...

Strachey Marjorie Colvile 1882-1962

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Strachey, Philippa, 1872-1968

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Robins, Elizabeth, 1862-1952

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Elizabeth Robins' long, active life (1862-1952) took her in many directions. Robins was American born and reared, but her multiple careers in acting, writing and the women's suffragist movement gave her the opportunity to travel widely and meet several important personalities. In addition to keeping various written records of her experiences, Robins kept photographic documentation of her performances, travels and acquaintances. From the description of Photographic materials, 1852-194...

Thomas Lady Margaret Haig 1883-1958

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Souvestre Marie 1830-1905

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Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964

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Born Nancy Witcher Langhorne, of Richmond, Va., and "Mirador," Albemarle co., Va. Married Robert Gould Shaw, 1897; divorced, 1903; one son, Robert Gould. Married Waldorf Astor (1879-1952) of Cliveden, Buckinghamshire, Eng., 1906; five children: William Waldorf (b. 1907), Nancy Phyllis Louise (b. 1909), Frances David Langhorne (b. 1912), Michael (b. 1916), and John Jacob (b. 1918). Elected first woman to Parliament, 1919, serving twenty-five years. From the description of Pa...

Strachey, Lady (Jane Maria), 1840-1928

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Strachey Richard 1861-1935

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Strachey Rachel Pearsall Conn nee Costelloe 1887-1940

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Bussy, Dorothy.

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Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932

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Lytton Strachey was born to an upper-middle class family in London, and educated at Cambridge, where he was part of the rebellious Apostles, a precursor to the Bloomsbury Group. Strachey became an essayist and literary critic; he also wrote poetry, but is best remembered as a biographer. Although he wrote some conventional biographies, his best work was Eminent Victorians, a collection of biographical essays that relied on Strachey's trademark psychological insight rather than exhaustive researc...

Strachey, J. P. (Joan Pernel), 1876-1951

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Strachey, James.

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Strachey, Richard, Sir, 1817-1908

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Lieutenant general of the Royal Bengal Engineers. From the description of Letters, 1867-1903. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 41546360 From the description of Papers, 1871-1905. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20400113 1836-1839 2nd lieutenant, Bombay Engineers; 1839 Bengal Engineers; 1841 lieutenant; 1843 executive engineer, Ganges Canal; 1854 captain; 1854 elected fellow of the Royal Society; 1856 under-secretary, Public ...