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Papers of Sybil W White

Catalogue reference: 7SWW

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This record is about the Papers of Sybil W White dating from 1911-1989.

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Reference
7SWW
Title
Papers of Sybil W White
Date
1911-1989
Description

The archive consists of two letters (one from Emily Wilding Davison) relating to Hart's work, a press cutting about Davison's death and two photographs of Sybil Hart.

Arrangement

The following items were removed from the archive as duplicates are held in The Women's Library Printed Collections:

* The suffragette : the official organ of the Women's Social and Political Union, No. 35, Vol. 1, 13 Jun 1913

* 'Quick, thy tablets, memory!' : Sybil W White, lifelong Quaker, pacifist and internationalist : her reminiscences / edited by Phyllis M. Wells. Available at WL Biographies, classmark: 941.0820924 WHI (as at Mar 2007).

Held by
London University: London School of Economics, The Women's Library
Former department reference
7/XX33; 7/XXX33
Language
English
Creator(s)
<persname>White, Sybil W, nee Hart, 1887-1985, suffragist</persname>
Physical description
0.25 A box
Access conditions

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

Immediate source of acquisition

Donated by Sybil White's daughter in 1996.

Administrative / biographical background

Sybil W Hart was born in 1887, the daughter of William Herbert Hart and Ellen Louisa Barritt, both of whom were Quakers. Sybil was educated in London and at the Friends school in Saffron Walden from the age of 11. In 1913 Sybil married Andrew EC White and moved to Kilmarnock, both of them were ardent pacifists and Sybil also supported anti-vivisection societies. During the First World War, Sybil served on the Friends Emergency Committee and the War Victims Relief Committee. She died in 1985.

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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/66e3ad18-4b1a-4b56-8d7f-748f8400d44d/

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Papers of Sybil W White