9 Queen Anne Terrace

History of 9 Queen Anne Terrace

1901

Mabel FitzGerald, widow, 42, b Ireland

Helen FitzGerald, 15, b Ireland

Susan Baker, 23, servant, b Barrington

1911

Agnes Russell Weekes, daughter, 30, tutor university correspondence college, b Rochester Kent, unenfranchised

Rose Weekes, daughter, 36, author, b Rochester Kent, unenfanchised

Emily Hutchings, servant, 33, cook, b Berks

Note this excerpt from the Cambridge University Web Site, Centre for Material Texts:

The centenary of a milestone in the history of women’s voting rights yesterday coincided with my graduate student Molly Yarn handing in the latest instalment of her PhD on female editors of Shakespeare in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. One of the women whose history she has been unearthing is Agnes Russell Weekes, who produced editions of As You Like It, The Tempest and Cymbeline for the University Tutorial Series. Weekes had a degree from University College, London; she worked as a tutor and co-wrote novels with her sister, with whom she lived at 9 Queen Anne Terrace in Cambridge. In 1911, Agnes (aged 30) and Rose (aged 36) filled in their census form. In the ‘INFIRMITY’ column, which invited you to note whether anyone included on the form was ‘lunatic’, ‘imbecile’, or ‘feeble-minded’, they wrote ‘unenfranchised’.

Agnes and Rose Weekes were among the thousands of suffragists who either boycotted the census or who used their forms to write messages of protest, such as Dorothy Bowker’s ‘No Vote – No Census. I am Dumb politically. Blind to the Census. Deaf to Enumerators. Being classed with criminals lunatics & paupers I prefer to give no further particulars’. It’s nice to have this opportunity to celebrate the courage of their protests.

1913

Mrs Weekes

1932

1932 letter to Constance Pyle

1932 letter to Constance Pyle

1962

United Cambridge Hospital Nurses Hostel