Wootton, Barbara Frances (Nee Adam), Baroness Wootton Of Abinger,
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
BARBARA FRANCES WOOTTON (NEE ADAM), BARONESS WOOTTON OF ABINGER, 1897-1988
Papers, including correspondence, addresses and lectures, interviews and personal papers.
Wootton Papers, Girton College Cambridge
Correspondents
WILLIAM HENRY BEVERIDGE, Correspondence 1926, 1933-54, Beveridge Papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
DUNCAN LYALL BURN, Correspondence 1956, Burn Papers, BLPES
EDWIN CANNAN, Correspondence 1919, Cannan Papers, BLPES
JAMES EDWARD MEADE, Correspondence 1932, Meade Papers, BLPES
LIONEL CHARLES ROBBINS, Correspondence 1938-9, Robbins Papers, BLPES
PETER SHORE, Correspondence 1971-3, Shore Papers, BLPES
FABIAN SOCIETY, Correspondence 1930s, Fabian Society Papers, BLPES
Printed material
ODNB; Barbara Wootton, In A World I Never Made (London: Allen & Unwin, 1967); Philip Bean and Vera G. Seal eds., Barbara Wootton: Selected Writings (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992); Philip Bean and David Whynes eds., Barbara Wootton: Social Science and Public Policy: Essays in her honour (London: Tavistock, 1986); Terence Morris, ‘In memoriam: Barbara Wootton, 1897-1988’, British Journal of Sociology 40 (1989), pp 310-18; Ann Oakley, A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the twentieth century (London: Bloomsbury, 2011)
Portraits
Photograph, NPG