Mrs Emeline Pethick Lawrence to Havelock Ellis

This material is held atWomen's Library Archives

  • Reference
    • GB 106 9/20/072
  • Former Reference
    • GB 106 ALC/3483
  • Dates of Creation
    • 26 Nov c.1920
  • Physical Description
    • 1 item

Scope and Content

She writes of the significance of the Movement (emancipation of women in the broadest sense) in moving terms as 'the concentration of ages of suppressed energy into one small focus, to sweep away an age old incubus'. 26 Nov - no year probability soon after First World War. References to Olive Schreiner d. 1920 and to Edith Lees who married Ellis in 1891.