Bookcase in University House

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Date:1914

Description:This bookcase stands in University House, Edgbaston and represents the love of books and learning demonstrated by <a href="http://www.search.suburbanbirmingham.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=1993">Rose Sidgwick</a> and <a href="http://www.search.suburbanbirmingham.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=1992">Margery Fry</a>. They had first met at Somerville College, Oxford, where Sidgwick assisted Fry as librarian. Sidgwick bequeathed her personal book collection to the joint <a href="http://www.search.suburbanbirmingham.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=1927">University & W.E.A. committee</a> in Birmingham.

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Women's Employment Women's Education Literature Edgbaston Design and Craft Artefacts 1901-2000 (20th century)

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Image courtesy of: University of Birmingham Research & Cultural Colls

Donor ref:UBRCC: (90/1994)

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