Vera Douie

Throughout Douie's life, she was an active force of the women’s movement, specifically maintaining involvement in the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene.

During World War II, Douie was a campaigner for equal rights, and she wrote books about women's employment.

[2] Vera's mother was a botanist and botanical artist, a friend of George Claridge Druce and contributor to the Flora of Oxfordshire (1927).

[4] Mavis Batey moved into that house in the 1960s; her biographer Jean Stone described the daughters of the family as having scholarly interests and being "emancipated, well-educated North Oxford women.

"[5] Mary Buchan Douie of the London School of Medicine for Women was her aunt, one of the first eight female graduates from Edinburgh University in 1893.

A donation to Millicent Fawcett meant the LNSWS, previously known under other names and in rented accommodation, was able to establish a permanent headquarters.

[13] Through her involvement with the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, Douie secured the accession of the large Josephine Butler collection.

She also acquired the collection of Myra Sadd Brown, a suffragette and internationalist, with material on British colonies, South Asia and Africa.

[24] During the 1920s, the London Society for Women's Service, precursor of the LNSWS, campaigned alongside other feminist organisations, such as the Six Point Group and the Open Door Council, on the equal pay issue.

[29] Douie published on women's employment: She wrote a biography of Aeta Lamb for the Suffragette Fellowship Collection of the Museum of London.