RESOURCES and SOURCES
Priscilla Wakefield was a significant figure during her life time as a prominent Quaker, author and philanthropist. However she has sadly all but disappeared from local history and national records. The internet with its wealth of information has made rediscovering Priscilla Wakefield easier but she is still very much the 'forgotten heroine'.
The main accessible sources for information on Priscilla Wakefield and her family are the blogs created by Ruth Graham in New Zealand:
Priscilla Wakefield:Travels in juvenile literature - created to capture and disseminate information about Priscilla Wakefeld, the woman, the author and matriarch of the wider Wakefield family.
Priscilla Wakefield's Journal: A woman's voice from the past - created as a way of capturing and disseminating what remains of Priscilla Wakefield’s Journals.
Quakers around Shoreditch (part of Andrew Robert's Studymore website) has a wealth of information on the wider Quaker community as well as Priscilla Wakefield and members of her family.
The Library of the Society of Friends, based at Friends House in London is a unique resource and is one of the largest Quaker collections in the world. The Library holds the papers of Hazel Mews (1909 - 1975) gathered when she began research for a biography of Priscilla Wakefield, from 1960 until her death in 1975. The papers are held in three boxes containing photocopies of papers belonging to Priscilla Wakefield including her journal, letters and notes on the events in Priscilla's life. One box is closed until 2025.
Bruce Castle Museum, a Grade I listed 16th Century manor house in 20 acres of parkland which is a Museum and houses Haringey local history collections, has a display on Priscilla Wakefield and there are copies of materials relating to Priscilla Wakefield in the Archives. Haringey Archives and Library
A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields by Philip Temple, Auckland University Press, 2002
The main accessible sources for information on Priscilla Wakefield and her family are the blogs created by Ruth Graham in New Zealand:
Priscilla Wakefield:Travels in juvenile literature - created to capture and disseminate information about Priscilla Wakefeld, the woman, the author and matriarch of the wider Wakefield family.
Priscilla Wakefield's Journal: A woman's voice from the past - created as a way of capturing and disseminating what remains of Priscilla Wakefield’s Journals.
Quakers around Shoreditch (part of Andrew Robert's Studymore website) has a wealth of information on the wider Quaker community as well as Priscilla Wakefield and members of her family.
The Library of the Society of Friends, based at Friends House in London is a unique resource and is one of the largest Quaker collections in the world. The Library holds the papers of Hazel Mews (1909 - 1975) gathered when she began research for a biography of Priscilla Wakefield, from 1960 until her death in 1975. The papers are held in three boxes containing photocopies of papers belonging to Priscilla Wakefield including her journal, letters and notes on the events in Priscilla's life. One box is closed until 2025.
Bruce Castle Museum, a Grade I listed 16th Century manor house in 20 acres of parkland which is a Museum and houses Haringey local history collections, has a display on Priscilla Wakefield and there are copies of materials relating to Priscilla Wakefield in the Archives. Haringey Archives and Library
A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields by Philip Temple, Auckland University Press, 2002
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