Articles and lectures by Rose Lamartine Yates

This material is held atWomen's Library Archives

  • Reference
    • GB 106 7RLY/1
  • Dates of Creation
    • c. 1910-c. 1919
  • Physical Description
    • 1 folder

Scope and Content

Mainly photocopies of Yates' articles, lectures, lecture notes and letters to the press. Also includes press cuttings giving reports of her lectures. Comprises:

* Annotated typescript, 'Hobbies versus occupations', c.1914.

* Annotated typescript, 'A peep at some of our public schools', c.1914.

* Press cutting of article 'Prison Life and Administration', The Times, 10 Jun 1910. With typescript letter in response to this article from Yates to the Editor of The Times, written from Dorset Hall, Merton, 12 Jun 1910, regarding her experiences in prison.

* Typescript of article 'Infection: a warning to anti-suffragists and anti-militants', with manuscript annotations, c. 1909. With photocopy of the article as published in The Suffragist, Oct 1909. [Manuscript version of article held with Emily Wilding Davison papers, ref: 7EWD/B/2]

* Press cutting of article reprinted from The Wimbledon and Merton Recorder; 'If', a series of arguments for women's suffrage, c.1910.

* Photocopy of annotated typescript of article 'How I became a suffragist', 1908.

* Photocopy of press cutting of article - 'Voteless, Hopeless' as featured in the Wimbledon and Merton Recorder, Jul 1910. [Original flyer held with Emily Wilding Davison papers, ref: 7EWD/B/1/3].

* Photocopies of two typescript versions of a lecture 'The Wheel of Destiny' delivered by Yates at the Wimbledon Women's Social & Political Union (WSPU), 10 Mar 1910. With photocopy of manuscript lecture notes by Yates.

* Photocopy of manuscript lecture, 'Woman's Fetters', c.1910.

* Photocopy of manuscript lecture, 'Battle With Prejudice', c.1910.

* Photocopy of manuscript lecture, 'Victory In Sight', c.1910.

* Photocopy of manuscript lecture, 'Her Right To The Franchise, If Not Why Not', c.1910.

* Photocopy of manuscript lecture, 'The Purpose Of Life', c.1910.

* Photocopy of manuscript lecture on the Women's Movement, c.1910.

* Photocopy of typescript of lecture, 'Scapegoats of our respectability', c.1910.

* Photocopy of annotated typescript article, 'A month in a common gaol for the faith', c.1910.

* Photocopy of manuscript lecture, 'Preparing for action, early skirmishes, 'Suffragist' 'Suffragette'', with photocopy of a printed manifesto issued by the Women's Social & Political Union (WSPU) after the arrests of Oct 24 1906' c.1912.

* Photocopy of manuscript lecture, 'Birth and infancy of the women's movement', c. 1912.

* Photocopy of press cutting of article, ' Constructed to Carry Six On Each Side' (Source: a Wimbledon newspaper ?) c.1910.

* Photocopy of press cutting of article, 'Reply to the defence of Lloyd George', 1910.

* Photocopy of press cutting of article, 'Holloway prison and 'Times' whitewash', c.1910.

* Photocopy of press cutting of article from The Standard, 'The militants at work', 28 Aug 1912.

* Photocopy of press cutting of article from the Wimbledon and Merton Recorder, 'Dare to think!', c. 1914.

* Photocopy of press cutting of article from The Daily Sketch, 'Happy washing days', 24 Feb 1919.

* Photocopy of press cutting, 'Suffragettes hold a meeting on Wimbledon Common', 26 Apr 1913.

* Photocopy of press cutting, 'Mrs Lamartine Yates on the political situation', c.1910.

* Photocopy of press cutting from the Wimbledon Borough News, reporting on a lecture by Mrs Lamartine Yates, Feb or Aug1910.

* Photocopy of press cutting from the Wimbledon Borough News, 'Women's Social & Political Union Meeting on the Common', mentioning Yates' speech, 27 Aug c.1910.

*Photocopy of press cutting, 'Woman's right to the franchise', mentioning Yates' lecture at the Wimbledon WSPU, 5 Nov c.1910.

* Photocopy of press cutting, 'Mrs Lamartine Yates on the birth and infancy of the woman's movement', 26 Nov c.1910.

* Photocopy of press cutting, 'Mrs Lamartine Yates on Woman's Fetters', 12 Mar 1910.

* Photocopy of press cutting of article, 'Mrs Lamartine Yates on the wheel of destiny', 19 Mar c.1910.

* Photocopy of press cutting of article, 'The suffrage movement, lecture by Mrs Lamartine Yates', 9 Apr 1910.

* Photocopy of press cutting of article from The Wimbledon Borough News, 'Mrs Lamartine Yates on the battle with prejudice', 16 Apr 1910.

* Photocopy of manuscript letter addressed to the Editor of the Daily Herald from Yates, on 'Why women cannot yet co-operate with men', c.1910

* Photocopy of press cutting, letter addressed to the Editor of The Daily Telegraph from Yates, on ' The Laws of Nature', 20 Aug c.1910

* Photocopy of press cutting from The Daily News, letters on the subject 'Does a man support his wife ?' from Rose Lamartine Yates, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Mary Neal and others, Jul 1911.

* Photocopy of press cutting, letter to the Editor of The Star from Yates, 'Some questions about woman suffrage', c.1910