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Representing a wide spectrum of women's achievements, a Council of 'Trusted Friends' has been invited to take a special and long-term advisory role to the Trustees. It is the Trustees' intention to approach women who have made outstanding contributions in the world of arts, sciences, the media, industry, commerce and learning.

Trusted Friends

Kate Adie	London	BBC television journalist and broadcaster, international correspondent
Jordie Albiston	Melbourne, Australia	Poet and academic
Mary Ann Caws	New York City, U.S.A.	Distinguished professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature
Deborah Clark	Truro, Cornwall	Director, Deborah Clark Associates, public relations consultants
A. E. L. Davis	London	Mathematician. Honorary research associate, Imperial College, London
Maria Dzielska	Crakow, Poland	Historian and author of 'Hypatia of Alexandria' (Harvard, 1995), Professor of History, Jagellonian University
Penny Florence	London	Professor of Contemporary Arts, Slade School of Fine Art
Theresa Gilder	Penzance, Cornwall	Sculptor
Amy Hale	Oakland, California, U.S.A.	Anthropologist. Adjunct Professor, on-line learning specialist
Anne Harvey	London	Actress, broadcaster, poetry and literary anthologist
Elma Heidemann	Ottawa, Canada	Former Executive Director, Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation. Author and international consultant on health services.
Joanna Hines	London	Novelist
Lady Mary Holborrow	Ladock, Cornwall	Former Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall
Barbara Hosking	London and Cornwall	Public administration and education
Adeline Johns-Putra	Penryn, Cornwall	Author. Department of English, University of Exeter
Alice Kavounas	Coverack, Cornwall	Poet, and lecturer at University College Falmouth
Cheris Kramarae	Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.	Visiting Professor, University of Oregon, Women's Studies
Nancy Lane	Cambridge, England	Cell biologist. Founding director Women in Science & Engineering Iniative (WiSETI)
Lee Langley	Richmond, Surrey	Journalist, novelist and film writer
Patricia Laurence	New York City, U.S.A.	Professor of English, biographer, and critic
Jessica Mann	Truro, Cornwall	Novelist, journalist and public administrator
Kath Melia	Edinburgh, Scotland	Professor, Chairman of the Department of Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh; sociologist and author
Pamela Gerrish Nunn	Christchurch, New Zealand	Professor in Art History, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Elspeth Pope	Shelton, WA, U.S.A.	Former professor, university librarian, indexer and handprinter. Coordinator of Hypatia in the Woods, USA, offices and visitor centre
Wendy Shillam	London	Architect, Shillam + Smith, consultant and author of architectural and arts publications
Sabine Sielke	Bonn, Germany	Professor and Director of the North American Studies Program and the Women's Forum & Gender Studies, University of Bonn
Heidi Stephenson	Totnes, Devon	Author, playwright, animal rights campaigner
Katherine Russell Tait	Porthcurno, Cornwall	Biographer and critic. Author of 'My Father' (Bertrand Russell) and 'Carn Voel - My Mother's House' (1998)
Ann Thwaite	Norfolk	Biographer and children's writer.
Johanna van Maanen	Netherlands	Former Professor of Nursing Sciences, University of Bremen
Marina Warner	London	Novelist and critic, historian and biographer.
Julia Watson	London	Actor. Leading actress in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's dramatised 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Dr. Baz in BBC television series 'Casualty'

Trustees

Melissa Hardie	Publisher, author, and book collector. Originator and donor of the Hypatia Collection. Company Secretary of The Hypatia Trust. Honorary Fellow, University of Exeter (Department of English)
Veronica Janas	Retired Company director
Phil Budden	Dental surgeon (retired), and part-time publisher and web designer. Treasurer of The Hypatia Trust
Andrew Bell	Retired company director
Doreen Pinfold	University librarian, University of Exeter (Cornwall) and University College, Falmouth
Jessica Mann	Novelist, journalist and public administrator

The first meeting between
Frances Partridge (left) and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

In subsequent years both were awarded the CBE.

After long and fruitful lives both died, within a few weeks of each other, in early 2004.

Both were Trusted Friends, and are greatly missed by the Trust, both for their support and for their friendship.

Here is some information about some of the personalities associated with the Hypatia Trust, and their contributions to the organisation

Melissa Hardie

Melissa Hardie is the Company Secretary and founding trustee of the Collections that form the Jamieson Library, Newmill. American by birth, British by adoption, and Cornish by devotion, Melissa is an avid collector, a diligent researcher in arts and local history, and a publisher of Hypatia Publications (inclusive of Patten Press & Jamieson Library imprints).

People, places, paraphernalia and pussy-cats contribute equally to the rural idyll that West Cornwall offers to writers and artists; all of these attract her attention and interest. Recently she was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the English Department, University of Exeter, with special attachment to the Cornish university campus at Penryn.

In 1995, Melissa edited the history of the Cornish gallery that was the home of the famous Newlyn colony of artists, in 100 Years in Newlyn, Diary of a Gallery. In 2000, she co-authored with Judith Cook the life and art of the painter, Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes, in Singing From the Walls. Penzance Town Council also published her Penzance, the town and around as a millennium gift to the young people in the area's schools, and as a general history guide for visitors. Most recently she edited the excellently-reviewed Artists in Newlyn & West Cornwall: A Dictionary and Source-book (2009, Bristol: Art Dictionaries Ltd.) and is now editor of the new (2011) Cornwall Artists' Index (on-line).

The Jamieson Library was built in 1986 to house Melissa's collections, but soon it was overflowing. As the collection began to become of national importance, it was necessary to ensure that it would not be dispersed. Thus the Hypatia Trust was formed to ensure the collection's long term survival, and to act as a generator for educational activities stemming from it. The Trevelyan House Study Centre in Penzance was added in 2003 to the Trust's activity bases, and central offices are managed there. (See FACILITIES)

Norna Jamieson was for many years the Senior Tutor at the Nightingale School of Nursing, St. Thomas' Hospital, London.

A long-standing friend and mentor of Melissa, she retired to Reawick, Shetland, and celebrated her 90th birthday in 2000. Melissa was with her for that occasion.

She died on 18th October 2007. For further information click here

The Jamieson Library at Newmill is named in her honour, and this photograph was taken on 11th October 1986 when 'Jamie' officially opened the Library.

Elspeth Pope, seen in this photograph with her late husband, Jim Holly, and Melissa, is a long treasured friend. Melissa met Elspeth initially through an interest in small presses and they have developed a friendship that was eventually to join both sides of the Atlantic through the Hypatia project and a love of cats.

Now officially retired (though far from retiring!) Elspeth has an impressive academic record of university library posts and overseas consultancy.

In 1999 Elspeth generously put her house and grounds in trust, for the use in perpetuity of the Hypatia Trust. A few miles south of Seattle, the writers and artists retreat, Hypatia-in-the-Woods, is now officially open, and receiving guests. A Trust Board has been formed in the USA to support Elspeth in the running of Holly House, and the attendant activities of Hypatia in the Woods.

More information and pictures of Hypatia-in-the-Woods are on the 'Facilities' page.

Veronica Janas, seen here with Elspeth Pope, during a visit to Hypatia-in-the-Woods. She was chairperson of the Hypatia Trust for five years, and now continues as a valued member of the board of trustees.

Her talented daughters, Karen and Nicola, are part of the younger generation of Hypatia, and are active in the organisation. Nicola is also featured in this picture, along with Elspeth's dogs. Her full-time work is with horses and her long-term objective is to establish a training centre in addition to an equine veterinary clinic.

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