IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0106 7/WWR
Held at: Women's Library
Title: Papers of Winifride Wrench
Date(s): 1917-1939
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Wrench | Winifride | fl 1919-1938 | journalist, lecturer and social worker
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Winifred Wrench was a member of a leading English family who was educated at home and then in Germany before becoming a journalist. She was a member of the party that visited Lille in April 1919 to see and report on the ruined state of Northern France after the First World War, attending as the representative of the English Speaking Union and Babies of the Empire. She was interested in child welfare throughout her life and was the organiser of the first National Baby Week as well as being the founder of the Mothercraft Training Society. However, by 1925 she had also become concerned with the issue of divorce law at the same time as continuing her association with the Overseas League, acting as the organising secretary for Scotland from 1928 to 1933. In 1934 she was resident in Edinburgh and described herself as a member of the All Peoples Association, a freelance journalist, lecturer and social worker. She remained a member of the English Speaking Union, the Women's Institute and the National Council of Women, the Soroptimists' Club, the Federation of Business and Professional Women and editor of Scottish Home and Country. She appears to have spent some time in Tangiers in Morocco in 1938.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Winifride Wrench, 1917-1939, comprising:
List of names and a caricature (1917); press cutting and list of names of British delegation to Lille, France(1919); correspondence related to the Overseas League in Scotland and the English Speaking Union and one letter from Sylvia Pankhurst (1920-1938); Christmas Card for the Canadian Women's Institute (1939).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
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Conditions governing access:
The collection is open for consultation. Intending readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
The records of the Mothercraft Training Society (1937-52) are held by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine; the papers of the English Speaking Union of the Commonwealth are still held by the organisation itself.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Created and used with the kind permission of the Archives Hub. Amended by Genesis Project Manager.
Date(s) of descriptions: 22/01/2002