Feminism and Voluntary Action: Eglantyne Jebb and Save the Children, 1876–1928

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Prologue: No Silk-Blouse Social Worker....Pages 1-12
The Lady Bountiful and the Country Squire: Lessons in Life, Love and Woodcarving....Pages 13-33
Raising Rebel Daughters: Lessons for Lives of Social Action....Pages 34-55
Educating Eglantyne: The Young Lady of Lady Margaret Hall....Pages 56-72
Ribbons and Trumpets: Toils and Troubles at Teachers College....Pages 73-87
‘Hewing out my Future in Defiance to my Friends’: The Life and Times of a Gentlewoman School Mistress....Pages 88-104
Matchmaking Matrons and the Misread Maidens of the Cambridge Charity Organization Society....Pages 105-120
Honour thy Mother: Duty vs ‘Free Unsheltered Life Fraught with Pitfalls and Danger’....Pages 121-141
The Sisters and Social Action....Pages 142-165
‘A Perfect Jungle of Intrigues, Suspicion and Hypocrisies’: The Early Save the Children Fund in Time of Crisis....Pages 166-184
‘Internationalization’ of Charity in Peacetime: Declaring the Rights of the Child....Pages 185-205
Epilogue: The Legacy of a Rebel Daughter and Early Save the Children Women....Pages 206-216
Back Matter....Pages 217-291