| Girton/GCPP Power, E contains: |
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| 1 |
Personal and Biographical |
| 2 |
Correspondence |
| 3 |
Writings |
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Personal Papers of Eileen Power
| Title |
Personal and Biographical |
| Reference |
GCPP Power, E 1 |
| Creator |
Various |
| Covering Dates |
1835–1994 |
| Extent and Medium |
10 items; Paper |
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| Content and context |
This section includes photographs; drawings and illustrations; cuttings; obituaries for Eileen Power; articles written on Eileen Power; and personal ephemera. The section is arranged broadly chronologically. |
| Girton/GCPP Power, E 1 contains: |
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1
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Photographs. Bundle 1: 9 portrait photographs of Eileen Power, 1920-22 and undated, including one with H G Wells for an advert for cigars; 1 is a colour glass plate, taken 'about 1922 after her Albert Kahn Fellowship in the Far East'; 1 is by Gabell, 2 are by Swaine; also 2 portrait photographs of Rhoda Power, 1927, taken by Dorothy Hickling. Bundle 2: snapshots of Eileen Power, including some taken at Girton College; 12 items, b/w and sepia; most have no date, but one is marked Felstead March 1916. Bundle 3: family portraits: three of Eileen, Beryl and Rhoda Power as children (1 shows them with another child in fancy dress, sepia, by Carl Reisch, Davos-Platz [1898?]; another, sepia, was taken by T Bennett & Sons, Worcester & Malvern, c. 1898?; and the other, sepia, taken by J Huff & Son, Maryport, shows them with their mother, Mabel Grindley Clegg - pencil note on the back reads 'Taken at Stapleton Cottage in the year 1894, ages 5,4,3'); 7 loose album pages; small portrait photograph of Eileen Power; album of a trip to Davos [1898?]; silhouette of John Power, 1835, from an original silhouette by August Edouart.
Creator: Various.
3 bundles; photograph. |
1835–1927 |
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2
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Drawings and illustrations. Illustrations, including fashion drawings, sketches, paintings, calendars (including 1908 calendar drawn by Eileen Power and 1931 calendar drawn by Margery Spring Rice, 1930), 2 illustrated sheets from a poem, 'The Deserted Merman', portrait sketches of EEP, illustrated menu. Most drawings by Eileen Power, some by MW [? PW? RW?]. Some items undated.
Creator: Various.
1 bundle; Paper. |
1908–1931 |
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3
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Cartoon of Eileen Power. Pencil cartoon of 'EEP shaking the dust of Newnham from her shoes'. Signed MLG [Margery Garrett] May 1910.
Creator: Garrett, Margery.
1 item; Paper. |
1910 |
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4
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A Manchester jubilee. University Women. Association's celebration. Newspaper cutting from the Manchester Guardian concerning the award of honorary degrees to Sara Burstall, Harriette Chick and Eileen Power, illustrated with photographs.
Creator: Manchester Guardian.
1 item; Paper. |
8 July 1933 |
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5
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People you hear - Described by Guy Fletcher. Cutting from the Radio Times concerning Eileen and Rhoda Power, with photographs of both.
Creator: Fletcher, Guy.
1 file; Paper. |
21 June |
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6
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Invitation from Eileen Power to a party. Photocopy. No date [RSVP 20 Mecklenburgh Square WC1 - presumably circa 1920s?].
Creator: Power, Eileen.
1 item; Paper. |
circa 1925 |
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7
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Books belonging to Eileen Power. With EEP's annotations and inscriptions from the donors: one volume (Helen of Troy: Her Life and Translation) has a dustjacket designed and illustrated by Ruth Fox, a friend of EEP. Most items undated.
Creator: Various.
4 items; Paper. |
1935 |
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Obituaries for and memories of Eileen Power. 5 items, as follows:. Professor R H Tawney's address for EEP at Golders Green crematorium, 12 Aug 1940 (1 ts copy, 2 printed copies);. G G Coulton, 'Memories of Eileen Power', obituary in The Cambridge Review, vol 52, October 18 1940;. J H Clapham, 'Eileen Power 1889-1940', obituary in Economica, vol 7, pp 351-359, November 1940;. Charles K Webster, 'Eileen Power (1889-1940)', obituary in the Economic Journal, vol 50, pp 561-572, December 1940;. M G J[ones], 'Memories of Eileen Power', reprinted from the Girton Review, including b/w photograph of EEP, head and shoulders, facing first page [no date]. Mary Llewelyn Davies and Theodora Calvert [both were EEP's students], 'Memories of Eileen Power at Girton', with related letter from Jane Wynne Willson, 30 January 1992 (daughter and niece respectively of MLD and TC: the article was typed, 1992, by JWW from the handwritten original of c. 1940).
Creator: Various.
1 file; Paper. |
1940 |
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9
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Three articles written by Maxine Berg on women historians and women's history and on Eileen Power in particular. 1) 'The first women economic historians: The LSE connection', in Warwick Economic Research Papers, no 328, Oct 1989 (ts);. 2) 'The first women economic historians', in The Economic History Review, vol XLV, no 2, May 1992, pp 308-329;. 3) 'Eileen Power and Women's History', in Gender and History, vol 6, no 2, August 1994, pp 265-274.
Creator: Berg, Maxine.
3 items in 1 file; Paper. |
1989–1994 |
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Changing the Subject: women and the writing of history in Britain, 1900-1940. Paper prepared by Ellen Jacobs for presentation at the 70th annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association in June 1991.
Creator: Jacobs, Ellen.
1 file; Paper. |
1991 |
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