| Ref No | 7ELR |
| Alt Ref No | FL092-FL093 |
| Acc No | 1973/NoAccNo07 |
| Title | Papers of Eleanor Rathbone |
| Description | The archive consists of correspondence and papers relating to Rathbone's work raising the status of women in India. Her activities covered the effort to obtain the franchise for Indian women, their legal and social status, their education and especially their efforts to make illegal the practice of child marriage. Her correspondents include some of the key women activists in India in the 1920s and 1930s such as Begum Jehan Ara Shah Nawaz (1896-1976) the first woman member of the All-India Muslim League Council, and B Muthulakshmi Reddi (1886-1968) the first Indian woman doctor. |
| Date | 1929-1937 |
| Subject | Women |
| Womens status |
| Womens rights |
| Womens organisations |
| Womens suffrage |
| Child welfare |
| Related Material | The Women's Library holds a number of archives which have items related to Eleanor Rathbone. These include archives of individuals such as Edith Eskrigge (7EES) that contain letters by Rathbone, the Autograph Letter Collection (especially 9/01 and 9/02, records of organisations such as the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (5NSE) and oral history interviews that mention Rathbone (8SUF).
Liverpool University: Special Collections and Archives holds 'Rathbone papers' (correspondence and papers );
London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives Division holds 1924-1930: correspondence with William Beveridge Reference COLL MISC 9;
British Library, Manuscript Collections holds 1915-44: correspondence with Lord Cecil, Reference Add MS 51141;
Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre 1944-46: correspondence with AV Hill, Reference AVHL;
National Archives of Scotland 1932-40: correspondence with Lord Lothian, Reference GD40;
Manchester University: John Rylands Library, 1929-45: letters to the Manchester Guardian, Reference Guardian archives;
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, 1931-41: correspondence with Gilbert Murray, Reference MSS Gilbert Murray;
British Library, Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections (previously Oriental and India Office Library) 1928-30: correspondence with John Simon, Reference MSS Eur F 77;
British Library, Manuscript Collections 1926-42: correspondence with the Society of Authors, Reference Add MS 56786. |
| Place_Code | NA469 |
| NA467 |
| Access_Status | Open |
| CatalogueStatus | Catalogued |
| Extent | 3 A boxes |
| Level | Fonds |
| Person_Key | Hutton, John Henry (1885-1968) Indian Civil Servant Anthropologist |
| Butler, Richard Austen (1902-1982) Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, statesman |
| MacDonald, James Ramsay (1866-1937), statesman |
| Sankey, John (1866-1948) Viscount Sankey, Lord Chancellor |
| Kerr, Philip Henry (1882-1940) 11th Marquess of Lothian, statesman |
| Lothian | Arthur Cunningham | 1887-1962 | Sir | Knight Indian Administration |
| Hoare, Samuel John Gurney (1880-1959) 1st Viscount Templewood, statesman |
| Benn, William Wedgwood (1877-1960) 1st Viscount Stansgate, statesman |
| BoxNumber | Box 01-03 |
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA938 | Women's Freedom League; 1907-1961; suffrage organisation | 1907-1961 |
| NA436 | Rathbone; Eleanor Florence (1872-1946); independent MP and social reformer | 1872-1946 |
| NA1173 | Hoare; Sir; Samuel John Gurney (1880-1959); 1st Viscount Templewood; statesman | 1880-1959 |
| NA1462 | Kaur; Raj Kumari Amrit (1889-1964); Indian Cabinet Minister | 1889-1964 |
| NA1463 | Hensman; Mona (1899-fl.1950); Indian politician | 1899-fl.1950 |
| NA1464 | Saheba of Janjiri (1897-fl.1935); Dowager Nawab Begum; social reformer | 1897-fl.1935 |
| NA1465 | Macpherson; Helen Stewart (1875-[1976]); Lady; social reformer | 1875-[1976] |
| NA1466 | Mukerjee; Mrs SC (fl.1935); Secretary, All-India Women's Conference | fl.1935 |
| NA1467 | Nawaz; Begum Jehan Ara Shah (1896-1976); first woman member of the All-India Muslim League Council | 1896-1976 |
| NA1468 | Nehru; Rameshwari (1886-1966); Indian feminist and peace campaigner | 1886-1966 |
| NA1469 | Ray; PK Sarala (fl.1920-fl.1935); Indian feminist and educationalist | fl.1920-fl.1935 |
| NA1470 | Reddi; B Muthulakshmi (1886-1968); first Indian woman doctor | 1886-1968 |
| NA1471 | Subbarayan; Kailash Radhabai (fl.1930-fl.1935); Indian feminist | fl.1930-fl.1935 |
| NA1472 | Ali; Begum Sharifa Hamid (fl.1930-1940); Indian feminist | fl.1930-1940 |
| NA1473 | Polak; Henry Solomon Leon (1882-1959); lawyer and humanitarian | 1882-1959 |