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The Hypatia Library was set up in 1996, with registered offices at the Jamieson Library, Newmill, Penzance, Cornwall to protect and develop the extensive collections of archives (scrapbooks, diaries, letters), books, periodicals, artefacts and ephemera, and audio-visual materials formed over many years by Melissa Hardie, who now serves as the company secretary and one of the Trustees.

Currently the Collections are lodged in seven locations:

  • The Hypatia Collection at The Jamieson Library, Newmill, Penzance, Cornwall.
  • The Hypatia Collection at The University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon.
  • The Elizabeth Treffry Cornish Collection, Trevelyan House, 16 Chapel Street, Penzance, Cornwall.
  • 'Hypatia in the Woods' is situated south of Seattle, on Puget Sound, near Shelton, Washington, U.S.A. This 15 acre site with house and outbuildings has been donated to provide the Trust with a residential retreat and study centre for the use of its membership world-wide and especially those with interests in poetry, writing workshops, handprinting and small-press publishing.
  • The Hypatia Collection of Minority Women's Literature, Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

  • The Cornish Literature and Feminist Theory Collections at The University Library, Tremough Campus, Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC) Penryn, Cornwall

  • North American Programme and Women's Studies Forum, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany

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The Jamieson Library collection of editions of John Halifax Gentleman by Mrs Craik.
This was the most popular novel of the Victorian era.

 

The Hypatia Collection of Women's History is the documentary base and springboard for a range of re-vitalising and service programmes. The Hypatia Collection comprises books, documents and artefacts that concern women's roles in history and contemporary life. This resource is an expanding archive of documentation on the achievements and contributions of women world-wide: Hypatia's work is the documentation of women's lives through research, publication and exhibition. The focus of the Trust and its activities is on women's lives in rural environments, economies and cultures.

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