Autograph letter signed by suffragette and writer Beatrice Harraden undated

Harraden, Beatrice (1864-1936), suffragette and writer. Autograph letter signed, discussing ill health and her hopes of returning to writing.

Undated autograph letter signed by Beatrice Harraden. Three pages on a folded sheet of black-bordered mourning paper, the third containing a brief postscript. 155 x 100 mm. Some foxing and a horizontal fold; otherwise about very good.

A letter in which Harraden Reflects on her recovery and its effect on her writing, she remarks: "I think if I take 3 months more rest I shall be able to try to work a little", and that "further betterment is worth trying for". She struggled for most of her adult life with nerve damage brought on by playing the violoncello as a child.

The novelist and suffrage campaigner Beatrice Harraden is best remembered for Ships That Pass in the Night (1893). She was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and the Women Writers' Suffrage League, and regularly contributed to the suffrage newspaper Votes for Women.