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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: ELAYNE ARCHERadmin2024-04-24T12:50:06-04:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Elayne Archer

April 20, 1943 – April 14, 2024

“Feminism is dynamic. It’s an act in progress. It relies on each generation to take the work forward.”

Educator. Author. Editor. Women’s Health Collective. HealthRight: Women’s Health Forum. Older Women Remember and Speak Out.

Interviewed by Judy Waxman, September 2021

Photo 1. Crossing Troubled Waters: The Memoir of an English War Widow, by Elayne Grant Archer. Photo 2. Who’s On Today? Life in a Brooklyn Commune, February 2022, by Elayne Grant Archer.

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More About Elayne:

  • Elayne Grant Archer’s website
  • Interview with Elayne Grant on her book Crossing Troubled Waters, Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1966, May 26, 2021
  • “Phyllis Archer, First Lady of Fournier St,” February 4, 2020
    • Edited and annotated by her daughter Elayne Archer, Phyllis’ memoir Crossing Troubled Waters recounts her experiences as a war widow emigrating from London to Toronto with her two young children in 1944, before returning to spend her final years in Spitalfields 36 years later.
  • Older Women Remember & Speak Out (OWRS) website
  • “Texas’ ‘Appalling’ New Abortion Law,” New York Times, September 14, 2021
  • Elayne Archer is interviewed by Emma Clark at the Park Slope Library on February 18, 2016.

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