DOUIE Family Papers
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 106 7DOU |
Held at | : Women's Library Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/Library/Collections/Collection-highlights/The-Womens-Library › |
Full title | : DOUIE Family Papers |
Date(s) | : 1885-1953 |
Level of description | : fonds |
Extent | : 1 A box |
Name of creator(s) | : Douie | Vera | 1894-1979 | librarian |
Detailed catalogue | : Click here to view repository detailed catalogue |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Vera Douie (1894-1979) was born in Lahore in 1894, the daughter of a British Civil servant in India. She was educated at the Godolphin School, Salisbury before going on to complete her studies at Oxford University before degrees could be taken by women. She subsequently became a library assistant at the War Office Library from 1916 until 1921, the year in which she became the indexer of 'The Medical History of the War'. She later became the librarian of the London National Society for Women's Service at the Women's Service Library at Marsham St, London between 1926 and her retirement in 1967. It was Douie who, during this period, laid the foundations of its transformation into the Fawcett Library (now The Women's Library). She was active in the women's movement throughout her life and was particularly involved in the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene. During the Second World War she was a fervent campaigner for equal rights and published 'The Lesser Half' on behalf of the Women's Publicity Planning Association in 1943, examining the 'laws, regulations and practices introduced during the present war, which embody discrimination against women'. After the war, she also published Daughters of Britain: an account of the work of British women during the 2nd World War (1950). When she retired in 1967, she was awarded the OBE for her life's work. She died in 1979.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
The archive consists of a Douie family photograph album and a photocopied pamphlet and notes relating to Douie family history.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Finding aids:
The Women's Library Catalogue
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited by Mrs Charlotte Gere [niece of Vera Douie] in 1998.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
Description Notes
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:
14/02/2008
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