McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/.
Save the Children
Connections
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Education | Elizabeth Jolley | Marked out as a foreigner in her own street and further sequestered by education at home, EJ
experienced the feeling of being in exile during her childhood and was desperately homesick when sent away to... |
Occupation | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | When she ceased being a journalist, in 1923, she volunteered to her services to Eglantyne Jebb
, joint-founder with her sister Dorothy Buxton
of the Save the Children Fund
, as an honorary organizer. She... |
Occupation | Maud Gonne | After the war MG
joined with Hermann Goertz
and others to found the Save the German Children
campaign, which brought German orphans (mostly Catholic) to new homes in Ireland. The original Save the Children Fund |
Occupation | Elizabeth Jolley | Six years later she became an Emeritus Professor in the School of Communication and Cultural Studies there. She also worked for a number of years for the Save the Children Fund
to satisfy her need... |
Occupation | Dervla Murphy | In IndiaDM
worked as a volunteer from July to November 1963 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 204 Murphy, Dervla. Wheels within Wheels. J. Murray, 1979. 232 |
Occupation | Ethel Sidgwick | ES
worked as a schoolteacher in England and France, as well as at writing and translating. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Meanwhile, KBG
returned to her socialist activism in 1924 after she had recovered from her breakdown. She began a lecture tour on 4 June that year, addressing socialist gatherings, and worked at selling her husband's... |
politics | Edith Lyttelton | In a letter to the Times, EL
and Nancy Astor
appealed for contributions to the Save the Children Fund
, for children affected by the coal miners' strike. The miners had walked out on... |
politics | Charlotte Despard | CD
stood as a pacifist Labour candidate on 14 December 1918, for the constituency she knew best, in Battersea, in the first British election in which women were entitled to do so, and was... |
politics | Ethel Sidgwick | A brother of ES
died in the First World War. Her preface for a publication for Save the Children
in 1927 suggests an active interest in the issue of displaced persons. |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | ES
attended the second congress of the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace
, which was held at Zurich on 12-17 May 1919 (and which gave the organization its lasting name of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom |
Textual Production | Ethel Sidgwick | ES
supplied a single-page foreword to the pamphlet Education for Life: The Training of the Girl Worker by Julie Eve Vajkai
, printed for Save the Children
at the Weardale Press
. Publication is dated... |
Textual Production | Ethel Sidgwick | Vajkai was the administrator in Hungary of the Save the Children
Fund, in whose basement at 26 Gordon Street, London, the press operated. Sidgwick, Ethel, and Julie Eve Vajkai. “Foreword”. Education for Life, Weardale Press, 1927, p. iii. iii |
Textual Production | Evelyn Sharp | The London Child and The Child Grows Up, ES
wrote, served both together to bring her a commission to report on the Conference on African Children held in Geneva in June 1931 by Save the Children International Union |
Travel | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | GHS
travelled to Bulgaria to report for Save the Children
on the conditions there following a severe earthquake. Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds. 205ff Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Timeline
May 1919: The charity Save the Children was publicly...
Building item
May 1919
The charity Save the Children
was publicly launched at the Albert Hall in London, largely through the efforts of the sisters Dorothy Buxton
and Eglantyne Jebb
, to alleviate suffering caused in Europe by...
July 1921: News reached the rest of the world that the...
National or international item
July 1921
News reached the rest of the world that the harvest had failed for the fourth year in succession in Russia.
John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press, 2009.
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