| Summary: | "Printed and manuscript sources over four centuries, providing a multitude of perspectives on the changing roles of women in history. This collection offers access to the works and legacy of many notable and influential women, but also a chance to hear the voices of forgotten and ordinary women. Highlights include: Papers and rare printed works of important female writers and thinkers; Life writing and autobiographies of a range of 18th and 19th century women; The papers of Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette, political activist and campaigner; Diaries and correspondence of aristocratic women, giving insights into the social, political and cultural history of rich and powerful women of the 18th and 19th centuries; Women's travel writing - manuscript and printed accounts of women travellers, missionaries, tourists and women living across the British Empire."--Women's studies homepage, viewed on February 20, 2020
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