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Women Through History

23 March 2022 | starting at 14:30 GMT

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COOKERY & MEDICINE Manuscript culinary and medicinal recipe book written in several hands, containing some 250 receipts including 'The Weapon Salve', eighteenth century

WOLLSTONECRAFT (MARY) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, [J. Johnson, 1792 or 1796]

TIGHE (MARY) Manuscript notebook titled "Sonnets", on the first leaf, containing some 140 poems, written in ink in a fine closely written hand, including poems from "Verses Transcribed for H.T." and later works, [n.p.], c.1806

AUSTEN (JANE) Autograph letter signed ("Yours affec.ey/ J. Austen") to "My Dear Anna [Lefroy]", [Chawton], Thursday [December? 1816]

[BRONTË (CHARLOTTE)] Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, Smith Elder, 1847

[BRONTË (CHARLOTTE)] Shirley. A Tale. By Currer Bell, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, Smith, Elder, 1849

NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE) Notes on Hospitals, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, Longman, 1863

NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE) Series of fifteen letters to her good friend Jessie Lennox, one of the original Nightingale Nurses, Claydon House and 10 South Street, Park Lane, W., 9 September 1883 to 7 June 1896 (15)

CAMERON (JULIA MARGARET) William Holman Hunt, half length portrait, [1864]

CAMERON (JULIA MARGARET) Ellen Terry, 1864 (but printed 1913)

CAMERON (JULIA MARGARET) George Frederic Watts, October 1865

JEKYLL (GERTRUDE) Home and Garden, 1900; Lilies for English Gardens, 1901; Wall and Water Gardens, [1901]; Roses for English Gardens, 1902, FIRST EDITIONS, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPIES (4)

TRANSGENDER - BINDING [LILI ELBE] Man into Woman. An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex. The True Story of the Miraculous Transformation of the Danish Painter Einar Wegener (Andreas Sparre). Edited by Niels Hoyer [Ernest Harthen], Jarrolds, 1933

MITCHELL (MARGARET) Typed letter signed to English fan Harry Haggas, on the ending of Gone with the Wind and the casting of the film, Atlanta, Georgia, 16 February 1939

NEURATH (MARIE) Railways Under London, 'Library Edition', Max Parrish, [1964]

FONTEYN (MARGOT) A pair of pink satin ballet pointe shoes worn by Margot Fonteyn, c.1962

KEELER (CHRISTINE) Archive of letters, photographs and other material relating to the childhood and career of Christine Keeler (1942-2017), the majority from her own collection

DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES Portrait photograph by Terence Donovan, signed and dated by the sitter ("Diana 1990") in ink on the mount, [1986]

LEIBOVITZ (ANNIE) Annie Leibovitz, 'SUMO' Collector's Edition, LIMITED TO 10,000 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER, New York, Taschen, 2014

GREENAWAY (KATE) Almanack for 1883-[1895] and 1897, a complete set with some variants, together 18 vol.; and 2 others, preserved together in a purpose-made morocco-backed box (20)

GREENAWAY (KATE) Almanack for 1883-[1895], 1897, 1924-1929, a complete set with some variants and duplicates, together 51 vol., Routledge, Dent or Warne, [1882-1894], [1896] and [1923-1928] (51)

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