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Barnes,
Joanna and Blairman, H., Ellen Mary Rope: The Poet Sculptor (London:
H. Blairman & Sons Ltd, 1997) art catalogue. Available from The Williamson
Art Gallery and Museum, Slatey Road, Birkenhead L43
4UE.
http://www.blairman.co.uk/publications.html
Ellen Mary Rope: The Poet Sculptor, exhibition catalogue, London 1997.
The illustrated catalogue includes original research by Suzanne Fagence et
al. on this Arts and Crafts period sculptor, and catalogues many of the works
left in her studio at the end of her life
ISBN: 0 9523292 6 3.
E. Moberty Bell, Octavia Hill (London: Canstable & Co.) 1942
Coates, Chris, Utopia Britannica: British Utopian Experiments 1325 - 1945, (London: Diggers & Dreamers Publications, 2001) 312 pp. ISBN 0-9514945-8-9
http://www.utopia-britannica.org.uk/pages/LONDON.htm
Crawford, Elizabeth, Enterprising Women:The Garretts and Their Circle (London:Francis Boutle Books), 2002
OF INTEREST: includes a whole chapter on the Chenies Street Chambers Ladies Residential Dwellings project; the entire book provides an excellent background to the time and the people involved in the project.
Darley, Gillian, Octavia Hill: A Life (London: Constable & Co.) 1990
Garrett, Rhoda and Agnes, Suggestions for House Decoration in Painting,
Woodwork and Furniture (London: MacMillan and Co.) 1877
Girling, Brian, Holborn, Bloomsbury and Clerkenwell (Stroud: Tempus
Publishing) 1999
Olive Schreiner Letters Volume 1, 1871-1899, edited by Richard
Rive, [Oxford: Oxford University Press] 1988
Walker, Lynne, "Home and Away: the Feminist Remapping of Private and Public
Space in Victorian London" in Ainley, Rosa (editor), Space Files : Exploring
Bodies, Space, & Gender
(Routledge, 1998) pp. 65-75.
ISBN: 0415154901
OF INTEREST: Includes a section on the occupants of Chenies Street Chambers,
including author Olive Schriener, the South African feminist who wrote The
Story of A South African Farm and Women and Labour, who lived
in Chenies Street in 1889 [Davin 1978; 85].
(p.70).
VIDEO
DOCUMENTARY
Their World This Time (director: Chris Reeves)
Platform
Films, London, 34 minutes, 1994
A moving documentary about the post war-housing crisis, squatting movement
and requisitioning of empty property (including the requisitioning of a private
garden in Montague Street, Bloomsbury, which the local Tenants' Association
arranged to requisition for their children). This garden had to be handed
back because the private owners, private hotels and the Bedford Estate found
the children too noisy; they locked the gates and sent the small children
back to risk their lives playing in the busy street.
The film includes archival footage of long-term resident of Chenies Street
Chambers, Johnny Morten (Patsy Futatsugi's father) seen shortly before he
is lead away by police for throwing food up to the protesting squatters at
the Ivanhoe Hotel, Bloomsbury. (front page of the
Evening News, 12.09.1946).
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