Vera Douie
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Vera Ruth Gordon Douie was a Scottish librarian. She is known as the first librarian at The Women's Service library. She was an active member of the women's rights movement and her work was recognised
Vera Douie c.1914–1920
Women's Library
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The Women's Library is England's main library and museum resource on women and the women's movement, concentrating on Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries. It has an institutional history as a coher
Vera Douie
…1940, and proved unusable after WWII ended. Douie worked on the library's conversion into the Fawcett Library of the Fawcett Society. It later became The Women's Library. The library passed to the British Library of Political and Economic Science of the London School of Economics in 2013. The collection holds two oral…
The Women's Library reading room in the LSE library
Mary Robinson (former President of Ireland) and librarian Elizabeth Chapman at the opening of the new Women's Library reading room at LSE, 12 March 2014
Maughan Library Round Reading Room 3833