Scope and Contents These papers refer to Emily Davies's candidature for election to the London School Board, established in 1870 for the education of the poor; first for the City Division where she failed to be nominated and secondly for the Greenwich Division where she was elected and for which she sat until 1873 when, because of pressure of other work, she did not seek re-election. They also relate to the election of Elizabeth Garrett, later Mrs Garrett Anderson, for the St Marylebone Division and the...

Scope and Contents By 1859, Emily Davies was acquainted with Elizabeth Garrett and other members of the Langham Place Circle (Barbara Stephen, Emily Davies and Girton College, Chapter IV, based in part on the now missing section of the Family Chronicle, pp. 101-200). In February 1861 she was receiving long letters from Elizabeth Garrett (Family Chronicle, pp. 202-210), whose father Newson Garrett (1812-1893, a businessman and mayor and alderman of Aldeburgh) actively supported her and the movement for...