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Stopes (Charlotte) Papers


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS ADD 157

Held at: University College London

Title: Stopes (Charlotte) Papers

Date(s): Created 1888-1926

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 3 boxes

Name of creator(s): Stopes | Charlotte Carmichael | 1841-1929 | writer on sixteenth-century literature

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Charlotte Stopes was born in Edinburgh, the daughter of Jas.F.Carmichael, a landscape painter. She was educated in Edinburgh and went to women's university classes (before Scottish universities opened to women in 1892). She took the highest certificates then possible, and a diploma in eight subjects including literature, philosophy and science, achieving a first class honours. She married in 1879 Henry Stopes, architect, civil engineer and anthropologist, and had two daughters, one of whom was Marie Stopes. After marriage, Charlotte travelled over Europe and up the Nile to the Cataracts. She then settled in Upper Norwood and founded a discussion society for ladies and a Shakespeare reading society, the Shakespeare Association. She also lectured in subjects relating to women and to Shakespeare. She received an Award of the British Academy for her 'Shakespeare's Industry' in 1916. In her early days she wrote some stories for Chambers's Juvenile Series, and later wrote many books and articles mostly related to Shakespeare.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The collection mainly relates to Stopes' work on Shakespeare, though there is a little general correspondence, and some notes on women's suffrage and other women's questions.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

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A boxlist is available on the online catalogue.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

A small part of the collection was found in the University College London Library basement, and the remainder was extracted from the Librarian's office in 1970.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: 1999


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Womens studies | Social studies | Social science education
Womens suffrage | Electoral systems | Internal politics

Personal names
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | dramatist, poet and actor
Stopes | Charlotte Carmichael | 1841-1929 | writer on sixteenth-century literature

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