Emily Davies: Collected Letters, 1861-1875

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Work on this book took place in three countries over nine successive summers, and many friends and family members contributed to making it a pleasure and a labor of love.We want to thank all of them for their support,interest,and affection .Special thanks to Sydney,Ciara,Bernard,Belle,Claire,James,Becky,Susan, Lucia,Tom, Annie and Nicole, and our mothers: Lila and Val. In the course of researching this book we wrote to dozens of libraries and archives searching for papers relating to Emily Davies.Our sincere thanks to the librarians and archivists who took the time to look through uncatalogued materials for us.Thank you also to fellow researchers who wrote letters with suggestions and words of encouragement. We gratefully acknowledge the cooperation and assistance of the following institutions, libraries, and individuals: The Mistress and Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge; Girton College Archives, Cambridge; Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts; University College, Dublin; Library of Trinity College, Dublin; the National Register of Archives; the British Library, London; the Syndics of Cambridge University Library; Duke University, Special Collections Library; the Friends’ House Library , London; the Boston Athenaeum; Johns Hopkins University, Milton S. Eisenhower Library,Special Collections;London Guildhall University,the Fawcett Library (now The Women’s Library);London School of Economics,British Library of Political and Economic Science; the Governors of Manchester High School for Girls;Newnham College Archives,Cambridge;North London Collegiate School; St. Andrews University Library, Scotland; St. John’s College Archives,Cambridge;University College,London,Manuscripts and Rare Books Library; University of Manchester, John Rylands University Library; Harvard University,Widener Library. Throughout this project, Kate Perry at Girton College Archives was informative and enthusiastic; we are most grateful for her support. Our sincere thanks also to Frances Gandy,Girton College;Vivien Allen and her associates at the New DNB; Sophie Badham, Royal Holloway University of London; David Blake, British Library; Elizabeth Crawford; Ann Dingsdale; Mary Ann Elston, Royal Holloway College;Judith Harford,University College,Dublin;Pam Hirsch, Homerton College, Cambridge; Robert Hirst, MLA; Felicity Hunt, New DNB; Ellen Jordan; Colin Matthew; John McManus; Susan Parkes, Trinity College, Dublin;Rita Russell,Manchester High School for Girls;Janet Sondheimer,New DNB;Norman Vance,University of Sussex at Brighton;Malcolm Underwood, St. John’s College, Cambridge; Maryann Valiulis, Trinity College, Dublin, and P. H.Waddington, professor emeritus,Victoria University of Wellington. We also gratefully acknowledge the support of University College,Dublin (Publications Support Scheme, ). At the start of the project in , Nancy Essig of the University of Virginia Press offered support and guidance for which we are grateful. In the final stages—after a decade during which technology greatly changed the way in which scholars work—we relied on the computing skills of Carmella Murphy at Assumption College to speed us through the preparation of the manuscript; we are indebted to her for her patience and expertise. We want to extend our special thanks to Dan Wajnowski for his research help and to Mary Brunelle for her invaluable assistance in copyediting. Our warm thanks also go to those who made our successive summers living at Girton College all the more comfortable and pleasant: the gyps, the attendants , the staff at Hall, Tom in the college bar, and the actors whose performances of Shakespeare’s comedies were carried on the warm evening breezes from the gardens of Girton to our desks. Finally,we would like to acknowledge the support of the University of Virginia Press, and particularly that of Cathie Brettschneider and Ellen Satrom. viii Acknowledgments ...