Metadata : Haymon, Sylvia (1917-1995)
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- The Women's Library
- Holding institution (official language):
- The Women's Library
- Postal address:
- 10 Portugal Street London Greater London United Kingdom WC2A 2HD
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7405 7686
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- The Women's Library
- Holding institution (official language):
- The Women's Library
- Postal address:
- 10 Portugal Street London Greater London United Kingdom WC2A 2HD
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7405 7686
- Reference number:
- 7HAY
- Title:
- Haymon, Sylvia (1917-1995)
- Title (official language):
- Haymon, Sylvia (1917-1995)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Haymon, Sylvia Rosen, 1917-1995, writer
- Date(s):
- 1961/1965
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 0.5 A box (2 folders)
- Scope and content:
- The archive consists of correspondence with Margery Corbett Ashby, Theresa Garnett, Anne Guthrie, Mary Stott, etc; publications; booklets; bulletins; press cuttings and a photograph of Charlotte Despard. The collection is concentrated around articles written by Mrs Haymon for the _Guardian_ newspaper in Nov 1961 and Apr 1962, entitled 'The End of the Women's Freedom League' and 'The Patient Suffragette', an account of Corbett Ashby's career.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Sylvia Haymon (1917-1995) was born Sylvia Rosen in Norwich on 17 Oct 1917, the daughter of a Jewish master tailor. She was educated at the London School of Economics but did not complete the course, instead marrying Mark Haymon in 1933. During the Second World War she worked in the United States, where she was employed by a New York toyshop as a buyer. She returned with the first of her two daughters to Britain in 1947 where she became a broadcaster, working with Woman's Hour in the early 1950s. She also became a freelance writer for _The Lady_, _The Times_ and _Punch_ until the late 1960s, writing articles on subjects including the militant suffrage movement at the start of the century. It was at the end of this decade that she began writing children's books, _Bonnie Prince Charlie_ in 1969, and _King Monmouth_ the following year. Subsequently she began to publish crime novels under the name of S T Haymon, the first being _Death and The Pregnant Virgin_ in 1980, followed by _Ritual Murde_' in 1982, for which she won the Silver Dagger Award. She published seven of these in all, in addition to two volumes of autobiography: _Opposite the Cross Keys_ (1988) and _The Quivering Tree_ (1990). She died, three years after her husband, in Oct 1995.
- Access points: locations:
- Great Britain
- Access points: persons/families:
- Haymon, Sylvia
- Access points: persons/families (additional):
- Haymon, Sylvia
- Subject terms:
- Feminism
- Professions--Journalists
- Access, restrictions:
- This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see https://archives.lse.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=7HAY
- Author of the description:
- Finding aid created by export from CALM v7.2.14 Archives Hub EAD2002. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.
- Women's Library
- Reference number:
- 7HAY
- Title:
- Haymon, Sylvia (1917-1995)
- Title (official language):
- Haymon, Sylvia (1917-1995)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Haymon, Sylvia Rosen, 1917-1995, writer
- Date(s):
- 1961/1965
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 0.5 A box (2 folders)
- Scope and content:
- The archive consists of correspondence with Margery Corbett Ashby, Theresa Garnett, Anne Guthrie, Mary Stott, etc; publications; booklets; bulletins; press cuttings and a photograph of Charlotte Despard. The collection is concentrated around articles written by Mrs Haymon for the _Guardian_ newspaper in Nov 1961 and Apr 1962, entitled 'The End of the Women's Freedom League' and 'The Patient Suffragette', an account of Corbett Ashby's career.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Sylvia Haymon (1917-1995) was born Sylvia Rosen in Norwich on 17 Oct 1917, the daughter of a Jewish master tailor. She was educated at the London School of Economics but did not complete the course, instead marrying Mark Haymon in 1933. During the Second World War she worked in the United States, where she was employed by a New York toyshop as a buyer. She returned with the first of her two daughters to Britain in 1947 where she became a broadcaster, working with Woman's Hour in the early 1950s. She also became a freelance writer for _The Lady_, _The Times_ and _Punch_ until the late 1960s, writing articles on subjects including the militant suffrage movement at the start of the century. It was at the end of this decade that she began writing children's books, _Bonnie Prince Charlie_ in 1969, and _King Monmouth_ the following year. Subsequently she began to publish crime novels under the name of S T Haymon, the first being _Death and The Pregnant Virgin_ in 1980, followed by _Ritual Murde_' in 1982, for which she won the Silver Dagger Award. She published seven of these in all, in addition to two volumes of autobiography: _Opposite the Cross Keys_ (1988) and _The Quivering Tree_ (1990). She died, three years after her husband, in Oct 1995.
- Access points: locations:
- Great Britain
- Access points: persons/families:
- Haymon, Sylvia
- Access points: persons/families (additional):
- Haymon, Sylvia
- Subject terms:
- Feminism
- Professions--Journalists
- Access, restrictions:
- This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see https://archives.lse.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=7HAY
- Author of the description:
- Finding aid created by export from CALM v7.2.14 Archives Hub EAD2002. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.
- Women's Library
