This Thursday sees the official opening of the new Women's Library, appropriately built on the site of a mid ninteteenth century wash house in the Whitechapel area of East London.
What was formerly the Fawcett Library now has a brand new building to house its 60,000 books and pamphlets, two and a half thousand periodical titles and four hundred archival collections. This is where you can find both a first edition Mary Wollstonecraft and the suffragette martyr Emily Wilding Davison's return ticket from the Epsom Derby. As part of their opening celebrations, the library has asked a number of individuals to choose items from the collection that they feel reflect important moments in their lives. For the cookery writer Joceline Dimbleby, it was Barbara Cartland's cookery book Food for Lovers.
