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PRICE, Millie (nee Browne)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 106 7MPR

Held at: Women's Library

Title: PRICE, Millie (nee Browne)

Date(s): c 1960

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.5 A box (1 folder)

Name of creator(s): Price | Millie Braine | fl 1881-1918 | suffragette and Quaker

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Millie Browne (fl.1881-1918) (later Millie Braine Price) was born on Christmas Day, 25 Dec 1881, in London. She was the daughter of the baritone Walter Browne and his wife. Mrs Browne left her husband around 1884 and moved to York where her daughter grew up and went to Castlegate College. In 1895 her mother inherited a sum of money and was able to both divorce her husband and send her daughter to the Priory Street School, here the younger Browne became a pupil-teacher. A Quaker, from around this time, she became involved with the Labour movement and attended a number of meetings before being awarded a Queen's Scholarship. Failing to enter Stockwell College, she attended Swansea Training College until 1902. Thereafter she became a teacher at a number of schools in Leeds before moving back to York in 1904 where she also taught at the Seacroft School for a time. It was during a visit to London in 1907 that she heard speeches given by members of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in Hyde Park and quickly became a member of the organisation. In Aug 1907 she was posted to Bristol to work on a suffrage campaign there with Annie Kenney and work in the suffrage shop in the town. She was offered a position as a WSPU organiser that she rejected before returning to her mother's home in Letchworth where she also campaigned. The following Aug 1908 she returned to Bristol to continue her activities. She took part in a series of parades in London and was arrested in one particular raid on the Houses of Parliament. She went on to be posted to Derbyshire during a by-election and to Llandudno and Southport as a helper before her activities tailed off as she became both concerned about the increasing violence of the methods used by the group and more interested in the work of the Labour Party. She went on to marry Charles Price, the son of the famous jeweller, and continued to attend local meetings of the WSPU until the outbreak of the First World War. Since she and her husband had become Quakers, she spent the war teaching while he became a conscientious objector and was posted to a hospital unit in Belgium. The fate of both after the war is unknown.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The archive consists of a typescript autobiography entitled 'This World's Festival' (incomplete) and biographical notes by Catherine Thackray.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Conditions governing access:

This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

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Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Collection level description available on-line on the Women's Library website

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

This unpublished autobiography was given to The Fawcett Library in 1995 by Catherine Thackray.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Related material:

The Women's Library holds the Papers of Marjory Sharp née Ingle (7HSH) and of Catherine Thackray (7CTH). The Women's Library also holds the records of a number of militant, Women's Social and Political Union members, including Emily Wilding Davison (7EWD) and Louisa Garrett Anderson (7LGA). The records of the Women's Social & Political Union are held at The Museum of London. The Women's Library Printed Collections also holds a number of publications by the Women's Social & Political Union.

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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: 05/03/2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Pacifism | Political doctrines
Women | Sex | Sex distribution
Womens education | Educational systems
Womens rights | Rights of special groups
Womens suffrage | Electoral systems | Internal politics

Personal names
Price | Millie Braine | fl 1881 | suffragette and Quaker
Thackray | Catherine Sharp | 1922-1999 | nee Sharp | psychologist and activist

Corporate names
Women's Social and Political Union

Places