Stopes (Charlotte) Papers

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0103 MS ADD 157
Held at	: University College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll ›
Full 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
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

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 & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Finding aids:

A boxlist is available on the online catalogue.

Archival Information

Archival history:

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.

Allied Materials

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Description Notes

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Date(s) of descriptions:
1999