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Jane Doe Collection
Catalogue reference: JD
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This record is about the Jane Doe Collection dating from 1891-1979.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- JD
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Title (The name of the record)
- Jane Doe Collection
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1891-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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The collection consists of books, diaries, account books, press cuttings, letters and photographs recording the life and career of the journalist and writer Jane Doe, aka Nettie Lewis.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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Catalogued by Eleanor Possart, 2012
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Oxford Brookes University: Special Collections
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Ada Nettie Lewis
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 3 linear metres
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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All users external to the University are required to register before using the collections. Collections must be viewed in the Special Collections Reading Room and users must abide by the Reading Room regulations.
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- Collection created by Nettie Lewis during her lifetime and inherited by her daughter and then her grandsons.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- The full collection can be searched via Oxford Brookes' archive catalogue: http://www.calmview.co.uk/OxfordBrookes/CalmView/.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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(Ada) Nettie Lewis, née Brockley was born in Enfield in 1891. She found fame as a journalist in the 1920s and 1930s, writing under the pseudonym Jane Doe. She was a regular columnist for the 'Daily Chronicle and Sunday News', and later wrote a Health and Beauty page for the magazine 'Woman's Own'. With the outbreak of the Second World War, the writing work dwindled and Nettie took a teaching post in Wimbledon. Following the War, she continued to teach English at St Gabriel's College, London. She died in Putney in 1979 at the age of 88.Her publications include three collections of her columns 'Through the Glad Eyes of a Woman', 'Glad Eye Views', and 'Jane Doe Calling', and a novel 'The Enchanted Duchess'.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/8a161698-f697-441d-a90d-a3f1ed698daa/
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Jane Doe Collection