Vera Douie

During her 41 years at the Women’s Library, she had developed it from a few bookcases for the use of members into a major research collection.

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Edith Morley

Edith Morley was a scholar in English literature, the first woman appointed to a Chair in a British university level institution

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Ragnhild Hatton

For 32 years Ragnhild Hatton was a member of the International History Department at London School of Economics as a historian and teacher of the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Gertude Tuckwell

The first woman to appear in the list of teachers in the London School of Economics Calendar is Gertrude Tuckwell in the School’s second year.

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Ruth Graisberry

Irish printer who succeeded her husband as college printer in 1822 after successfully petitioning the Trinity College Dublin to retain her, with the backing of the leading figures in the capital’s printing trade.

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