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GUNDREY, Elizabeth


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 106 7ELG

Held at: Women's Library

Title: GUNDREY, Elizabeth

Date(s): 1959-1975

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2.3 A boxes (2 catalogued, 0.3 uncatalogued)

Name of creator(s): Gundrey | Elizabeth | fl 1959-1975 | journalist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Elizabeth Gundrey (fl 1959-1975) was a journalist and author of 'Jobs for Mothers'. Prior to this Elizabeth wrote articles on the employment of middle class wives and on widowhood. She also wrote a paper for the National Economic Development Committee on recruitment and training of married women in the retail trade.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The archive consists of papers and correspondence about 'Jobs for Mothers', papers about widows, working mothers and others, press cuttings, working notes, replies to questionnaires and lists of publications on careers.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The records are arranged in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

This collection is partially available for research. The catalogued portion of the collection is available for research, uncatalogued material remains unavailable. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Fawcett Library Catalogue

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The archive was deposited in 1997 as an outright gift.; Additional material was found amongst 'unsorted archival miscellany' during the move of the Library into the new building, 2002, and formally accessioned, July 2003.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The Women's Library has much material related to women's employment and women's employment organisations (see Strand 6 of the archive collection guide).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Finding aid created by export from CALM v7.2.14 Archives Hub EAD2002. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 25/02/2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Journalists | Communication personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Married women | Marital status | Marriage
Widows | Marital status | Marriage
Women | Sex | Sex distribution
Womens employment | Employment
Working mothers | Mothers | Parents | Kinship | Family
Writers | Authors

Personal names
Gundrey | Elizabeth | fl 1959 | journalist

Corporate names

Places