Bell (Susan G.) An Annotated bibliography of British Women's autobiographies, 1986-1998

Summary

Title:

Susan Groag Bell's An Annotated bibliography of British Women's autobiographies, 1790-1950 : research and reference materials,

Dates:

1986-1998

Creators:

Bell, Susan Groag

Extent:

15.75 linear ft.

Language:

English.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item] Susan Groag Bell's An Annotated bibliography of British Women's autobiographies, 1790-1950 : research and reference materials, M0918, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection includes the questionnaires, together with the original NEH grant proposal and correspondence.

Biographical / historical:

Susan Groag Bell is a historian and Affiliated Scholar at the Stanford Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She has published numerous books and articles on women's history. Working with Barbara Kanner, a Los Angeles historian and specialist in British women's bibliography, volunteer readers were asked to read and assess autobiographies written or published by British women between 1780 and 1950, completing detailed questionnaires (366 questions) about the women which were developed by Bell and Kanner. "British" women were defined for the project as women who spent a considerable part of their lives in Britain, including women who were born there but later lived or became citizens elsewhere. The dates were chosen to insure full coverage of the 19th century. Roughly one thousand titles were included in the study. Thematic indices were used for such issues as work patterns, professions, lifestyles, spirituality, and politics. The work was funded in part by an NEH grant. As of the current date, 1997, research is still ongoing. Barbara Kanner has published a bibliography of the autobiographies and Bell is continuing to supervise and organize the completion of the questionnaires.

Custodial history:

Gift of Susan Groag Bell, 1997 and 1998.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

British literaturey20th century.
Women -- Autobiographies.
Women -- Great Britain.

Names:

Aberdeen, Ishbel Maria.
Abdullah, Morag Murray.
Aeland, Eleanor.
Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel), d. 1940.
Allen, Dorothy, 1896-1959.
Allen, Mary Sophia.
Allinson, Francesca, 1902-
Anderson, Doris Garland.
Anderson, Mary, 1859-1940.
Aria, Mrs. (Eliza Davis), 1866-1931.
Arnold, Mary Augusta, 1851-1920.
Ashby,Lillian Luker, 1876-
Ashford, Mary Ann, b. 1787.
Ashwell, Lena.
Asquith, Cynthia, Lady, 1887-1960.
Asquith, Margot, 1864-1945.
Bacon, Gertrude, b. 1874.
Bagod, Sophy Louisa Percy, b. 1821.
Balfour, Frances, Lady, 1858-1931.
Bankes, Viola Florence Geraldine.
Barlow, Amy, b. 1893?.
Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston, 1831-1919.
Barrington, Charlotte, 1855-1935.
Barry, Alice F.
Battersea, Lady (Constance), 1843-1931.
Bayley, Emily, Lady, b. 1830.
Becker, Augusta, 1830-1909.
Beckwith, Muriel, Lady, b. 1884.
Beddington, Frances.
Bentham-Edwards, Mathilda, 1836-1919.
Bentinck, Norah, Lady.
Bentwich, Helen C.
Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910.
Bloom, Ursula.
Bondfield, Margaret, 1873-1953.
Booker, Beryl Lee, b. 1887.
Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973.
Bowen, Marjorie, 1888-1952.
Bowen, Stella.
Boyle, Mary Louisa, 1810-1890.
Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970.
Brooke, Margaret, Lady, b. 1849.
Brooke, Sylvia, Lady, 1885-1941.
Brooke, Sylvia Leonora (Brett), Lady, Rani of Sarawak, 1885-1971.
Brown, Beatrice Curtis.
Brown, Hildegarde Gordon.
Brown, Jane, b. 1902.
Buchanan, Meriel, b. 1886.
Bussy, Dorothy.
Butler, Elizabeth, Lady, 1846-1933.
Butler, Josephine Elizabeth Grey, 1828-1906.
Byrne, M. St. Clare (Muriel St. Clare), b. 1895.
Calhoun, Eleanor.
Calvert, Adelaide, 1836-1921.
Cambridge, Ada, 1844-1926.
Cameron, Mary, Lady.
Campbell, Margaret, 1888-1952.
Campbell, Patrick, Mrs., 1865-1940.
Carbery, Mary.
Carr, J. Comyns, Mrs., b. 1850.
Charke, Charlotte, 1713-1760.
Charles, Elizabeth Rundle, 1828-1896.
Chorley, Katherine, b. 1897.
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.
Churchill, Jennie Jerome, 1854-1921.
Churchill, Randolph Spencer, Lady, 1854-1921.
Clift, C. Winifred Lechmere.
Cobbe, Frances Power, 1822-1904.
Cole, Margaret, 1893-1980.
Collier, Constance, 1878-1955.
Conyers, Dorothea, b. 1873.
Collyer, Margaret.
Cook, Ida.
Cooper, Margaret.
Conquest, Joan.
Cooke, Bella.
Corkran, Henriette.
Courtney, Janet E.
Cowan, Evelyn.
Creighton, Louise, 1850-1936.
Crisp, Dorothy.
Culling, E.V.H.S.
Gordon Cumming, C.F. (Constance Frederica), 1837-1924.
Curtis, Julia.
Cusak, Margaret A.
Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899.
Dalglish, Doris N., b. 1894.
Davies, Celia, b. 1902.
Davies, C. Stella, b. 1895.
Davies, Clara Novello, b. 1861.
Dando, Ellen D.
de Steiger, Isabelle, b. 1836.
de Stoeckl, Agnes, Baroness, b. 1874.
De Wolfe, Elsie, 1865-1950.
Delisle, Francoise Roussel.
Diehl, Alice M. (Alice Mangold), 1844-1912.
Dracott, Alice Elizabeth.
Draper, Muriel, b. 1886.
Drew, John, Mrs., 1820-1897.
Dundas, Anne.
Dyke, Zoe Hart, Lady.
Eames, Emma, 1865-1952.
Echlin, Elizabeth G. (Elizabeth Gladys).
Elizabeth, Countess of Fingall, b. 1867?.
Evans, Joan, 1893-
Evans, Margiad, 1909-1958.
Eyles, Leonora, 1890-
Faithfull, Lilliam M., b. 1865.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett, Dame, 1847-1929.
Ffoulkes, Maude M.C.
Finn, Elizabeth Anne McCaul, 1825-1926.
Fletcher, Eliza Dawson, b. 1770.
Fletcher, Margaret,b. 1862.
Foakes, Grace.
Foley, Alice, b. 1891.
Forsyth, Jessie, 1847-1937.
Frankau, Pamela, 1908-1967.
Fraser, Hugh, Mrs., d. 1922.
Fraser, Mary C., d. 1922.
Frith Panton, J.E. (Jane Ellen), 1848-1923.
Fry, Caroline, 1787-1846.
Furse, Katharine Symonds, Dame, 1875-1952.
Galsworthy, Ada, d. 1956.
Garrett, Eileen Jeanette Lyttle, 1893-1970.
Garnett, Angelica, b. 1918.
Gielgud, Kate Terry Lewis, 1868-
Gill, Maud.
Gonne, Maud, 1866-1953.
Gordon, Edith Susan Leeson, Lady.
Gordon, Helen.
Gordon, Jane.
Gordon, Will, Mrs.
Greville, Violet, lady, 1842-1932.
Gwynne-Vaughan, Helen, Dame, b. 1877.
Grant, Anne MacVicar, 1755-1838.
Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson, 1862-1937.
Halden, Margaret.
Ham, Elizabeth, b. 1783.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes, 1883-
Hamnett, Nina, 1890-1956.
Handley, M.A.
Harper, Allanah, 1904-
Harrison, Jane Ellen, 1850-1928.
Hart Dyke, Zoe, Lady.
Havergal, Maria V.G. (Maria Vernon Graham), 1821-1887.
Helps, Mary Alice.
Henderson, Kathleen C.T.
Hewitt, Kathleen.
Hirst, Alice Ellen.
Holman-Hunt, Diana.
Homewood, Isabel Georgina.
Hopkinson, Evelyn.
Howitt, Mary Botham, 1799-1888.
Hughes, Alice.
Hughes, M.V. (Mary Vivian), 1866-
Humphreys, Desmond, Mrs.
Hunt, Agnes Gwendoline, Dame, 1867-1948.
Jackson, Annabel Huth.
Jacob, Naomi Ellington, 1889-1964.
James, Norah C.
Jersey, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers, Countess of.
Jeune, Susan Mary Elizabeth Stewart-Mackenzie, Lady.
Johnson, Amy.
Johnston, Ellen.
Jones, E.E. Constance.
Jopling, Louise, 1843-1933.
Jukes, Harriet Maria, 1817-1854.
Kanner, Barbara.
Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893.
Kemble, Frances Anne, 1809-1893.
Kenney, Annie, b. 1879.
Keynes, Florence Ada, b. 1861.
Keynes, Margaret Elizabeth.
Kinnaird, Emily, b. 1855.
Kirby, Georgiana Bruce, 1818-1887.
Knight, Laura, Dame, 1877-1970.
Langtry, Lillie, 1853-1929.
Lawrence, Dorothy.
Lawrence, Gertrude.
Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich, Eleanor Hulda Calhoun, Princess.
LeBreton, Anna Letitia, 1808-1885.
LeBreton, Anna Letitia Aikin, 1808-1885.
Lee, Jennie,1904-
Lehmann, Liza, 1862-1918.
Lehmann, Rosamund, 1901-
Leigh, Elizabeth Medora, 1814-1849.
Leigh, Margaret Mary.
Leslie, Henrietta, 1884-1946.
Lister, Roma.
Lodge, Eleanor Constance, 1869-1936.
Londonberry, Edith Helen Chaplin Vane-Tempest, Marchioness of, b. 1878.
Lonsdale, Sophia.
Luck, Lucy, b. 1848.
Lumsden, Louisa Innes, b. 1840.
Lutyens, Emily, Lady, 1874-1964.
Lynch, Hannah.
Lytton, Constance, Lady, 1869-1923.
Macartney, Catherine, Lady, 1877-1949.
MacDonald, Alice Edith, Lady, 1861-1935.
Mackesy, Leonora Dorothy Rivers, b. 1902.
Mackworth, Margaret Haig Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda, b. 1883.
MacManus, Emily E.P.
Malleson, Constance.
Malleson, Lucy Beatrice, 1899-1973.
Mallowan, Agatha Christie, 1890-1976.
Margaret, Ranee of Sarawak, b. 1849.
Markham, Violet R. (Violet Rosa).
Marshal, Mary Paley, b. 1850.
Martha.
Martineau, Alice.
Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876.
Martindale, Hilda, 1875-1952.
May, Betty.
Maybrick, Florence Elizabeth Chandler, 1862-1941.
Mayo, Isabella Fyvie, 1843-1914.
McDougall, Harriette, 1817-1866.
McKerlie, E. Marianne H.
Melba, Nellie, Dame, 1861-1931.
Menzies, Amy Charlotte Bewicke.
Meredith, Anne, 1899-1973.
Meynell, Esther.
Montagu, Lilian Helen, 1873-1963.
Montefiore, Dora B., 1851-1927.
Mordaunt, Elinor, 1877?-1942.
Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859.
Munster, Wilhelmina Fitzclarence, Countess of, 1830-1906.
Murray, Amelia M. (Amelia Mathilda), 1795-1884.
Murray, Elizabeth.
Murray, Margaret Alice, b. 1863.
Napier, Elma, b. 1892.
Neilson, Julia, b. 1869.
Nevinson, Margaret Wynne.
Nicoll, Catherine Robertson, b. 1863.
Nicholson, Phyllis.
Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret), 1828-1897.
Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness, 1865-1947.
Ormerod, Eleanor, LL.D., 1828-1901.
Pakenham, Mary, Lady, b. 1907.
Panton, Jane Ellen Frith, 1848-1923.
Parrish, Maud, b. 1878.
Paul, Brenda Dean, b. 1907.
Peel, C.S., Mrs.
Peel, Dorothy Constance Bayliff.
Peel, Georgiana Russell, Lady, b. 1836.
Penn, Margaret.
Penn, Margaret, b. 1896.
Petrova, Olga, 1886-
Phillips, C.P.
Phillips, Margaret Mann.
Pitt, Frances, b. 1888.
Poore, Ida Margaret Graves, Lady, 1860-1941.
Praed, Campbell, Mrs., 1851-1935.
Priestley, Lady (Eliza Chambers).
Radnor, Helen Matilda Chaplin, Countess of, 1846-1928.
Ravenhill, Alice, 1859-1954.
Raverat, Gwen, 1885-1957.
Rennie, Jean, 1906-
Rhondda, Margaret Haig (Thomas) Mackworth, Viscountess, 1883-1958.
Ring, Elizabeth, b. 1912.
Ringer, Frederica A.
Richardson, Mary R.
Richardson, Henry Handel, pseud.
Rita.
Robins, Elizabeth.
Robinson, Sarah.
Ruck, Berta, 1878-
St. Helier, Lady (Susan Mary).
Sandes, Flora.
Scannell, Dorothy.
Serrell, Alys F.
Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962.
Simon, Rachel, Lady, b. 1824.
Sitwell, Constance, b. 1887.
Sitwell, Edith, Dame, 1887-1964.
Smith, Dodie, b. 1896.
Smith, Dorothy Gladys, 1896-
Smith, Eleanor Furneaux, Lady, 1902-1945.
Smith, Emma, pseud.
Smith, Mary, 1822-1889.
Smithson Annie M.P. (Annie Mary Patricia) 1883-1948.
Smyth, Ethel, 1858-1944.
Somerville, Mary, 1780-1872.
Somerville, E.OE. (Edith Oenone), 1858-1949.
Soldene, Emily, 1844?-1912.
Soskice, Juliet M.
Spring, Marion Ursula Howard, b. 1890.
Starr, Leonora, Mrs., b. 1902.
Steel, Flora Annie (Webster), 1847-1929.
Stephenson, Sarah, 1738-1802.
St.John, Christopher.
Stocks, Mary Danvers Brinton, 1891-
Story, J.L., b. 1828.
Swan, Annie S., 1859-1943.
Swanwick, Helena M. (Helena Maria), 1864-
Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928.
Thirkell, Angela, 1890-1961.
Thompson, Flora.
Tweedsmuir, Susan, b. 1882.
Twining, Louisa.
Tynan, Katherine, 1861-1931.
Vanbrugh, Violet, b. 1867.
Vidal, Lois, b. 1889.
Vigers, Edith Mary.
Wakeman, Annie.
Walker, Bettina, d. 1893.
Walsh, Jane.
Ward, E.M.,Mrs., 1832-1924.
Ward, Henrietta Mary Ada, 1832-1924.
Ward, Humphry, Mrs., 1851-1920.
Webb, Beatrice Potter, 1848-1943.
West, Katherine Leaf, b. 1900.
White, Florence.
Williams, Peggy Eileen Arabella, 1909-1958.
Wilson, Anne C. (Campbell), Lady.
Woodward, Kathleen, 1896-1961.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

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[Identification of item] Susan Groag Bell's An Annotated bibliography of British Women's autobiographies, 1790-1950 : research and reference materials, M0918, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

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