Eglantyne Jebb: Remembering, representing and writing a rebel daughter

Women's History Review

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-20

  Mahood, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

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EID: 51249137090     PISSN: 09612025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09612020701447525     Document Type: Review

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1. Dorothy Buxton & Edward Fuller (1931) The White Flame: the story of the Save the Children Fund (London: Longman), p. 36
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6. Myall, '"Only be ye strong and very courageous"', pp. 63-65
7. Hilda Kean and Dea Birkett & Julie Wheelwright have confronted, rather than excused the moral and political tribulations of their subjects, and thus demonstrated that unearthing 'unpalatable facts' about the women we research is just part of the job of writing feminist biography. Hilda Kean (1998) Some Problems of Constructing and Reconstructing a Suffragette's Life: Mary Richardson, suffragette, socialist and fascist, Women's History Review, 7, pp. 475-493
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13. Eglantyne Buxton (n.d.) Notes for a Possible Biography of Miss Eglantyne Jebb, pp. 1-2 (Buxton Family Papers, Wareham, Dorset, cited hereafter as Buxton papers)
14. Geraldine Jebb (n.d.) Memories of Eglantyne Senior, p. 2 (Buxton papers)
15. Eglantyne Mary Jebb (n.d.) A Personal Memoir of Her Sister (Royal Holloway, University of London: Geraldine Emma May, Papers [1942-1952])
16. Francesca Wilson (1979) Friendships, in Ann Phillips (Ed.) A Newnham Anthology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 68-69
17. Diary of Eglantyne Jebb's Period as Teacher at Marlborough Elementary School, 6 April 1899 (Jebb papers)
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23. Liz Stanley (1992) Romantic Friendships? Some Issues in Researching Lesbian History and Biography, Women's History Review, 1, p. 193
24. Letter from Arthur Trevor Jebb to Eglantyne Louisa Jebb, 4 October 1891 (Jebb papers)
25. Letter from Eglantyne Jebb to Dorothy Gardiner, 11 November 1896, p. 28 (Save the Children Archive: London, Dorothy Gardiner Kempe, cited hereafter as Gardiner papers). Gardiner was a friend from LMH who was doing settlement work in London at this time She prepared these letters for the SCF in the 1950s. The dates and numbers are inconsistent, but listed when possible
26. Edward Fuller (1951) The Right of the Child (London: Gollancz), p. 20
27. Letter from Jebb to Gardiner, 12 February 1897, summer 1897 (Gardiner papers)
28. Board schoolteachers were usually recruited as pupil teachers from the academically gifted youth of the working class, but during the 1880s an increasing number were of lower-middle-class girls were entering elementary teaching. Linda Mahood (2006) Elementary Teaching as Toil: the diary and letters of Miss Eglantyne Jebb, a Gentlewoman Schoolmistress, History of Education, 35, pp. 321-343
29. June Purvis (1991) A History of Women's Education (Milton Keynes: Open University Press), pp. 23-24
30. Dina. Copelman (1996) Women Teachers in London, 1870-1930 (London: Routledge), pp. 45-46
31. Fuller, The Right of the Child, p. 20
32. Geraldine Jebb, Recollection of Eglantyne Senior, p. 10
33. Letter from Jebb to Gardiner, September 1898; Letter no. 100 p. 88 (Gardiner papers)
34. Letter from Jebb to Gardiner, p. 85 (Gardiner papers)
35. Diary of Eglantyne Jebb's Period as Teacher at Marlborough Elementary School, 6 April to 30 July, pp. 6-24 (Jebb papers)
36. Diary of Eglantyne Jebb's Period as Teacher at Marlborough Elementary School, Ibid., 21 November 1900, p. 43
37. Mary Bobbitt (1960) With Dearest Love to All: the life and letters of Lady Jebb (Chicago: Regency), p. 129
38. Emily's Family History (n.d.), p. 15 (Jebb papers)
39. Letter from Jebb to Gardiner, 29 December 1900 (Gardiner papers)
40. Ruth Wordsworth (n.d.) Recollections of Eglantyne Jebb, 1928 (Jebb papers)
41. Buxton & Fuller, White Flame, p. 3
42. Letter from Jebb to Gardiner, letter no. 192 (Gardiner papers)
43. Cambridge Ladies' Discussion Society, Annual Report, 1 February 1905, p. 1
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45. Francis Spalding (2001) Gwen Raverat, p. 402 (London: Harvill)
46. Wilson read Period Piece and drew heavily on it for her Cambridge material in Rebel Daughter, p. 98
47. Recollection of a conversation (n.d.) (Buxton papers). For another version of conversation between Jebb and Marshal see: Letter from Jebb to Gardiner, 5 February 1903 (Gardiner papers)
48. Letter from Jebb to Gardiner, 24 November 1902 (Gardiner papers)
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52. Robert Skidelsky (1983) John Maynard Keynes, vol. 1: Hopes Betrayed (London: Macmillan), p. 122
53. Letter from Jebb to Gardiner, 18 May 1905 (Gardiner papers)
54. Cambridge Diary, 13 July 1906 (Jebb papers)
55. Dorothy Francis Buxton (10 October 1929) A Talk with Mrs. Keynes (Letter states: 'most intimate of her letters she had burnt'. Buxton papers)
56. Stanley, 'Romantic Friendships', p. 197
57. Letter from Maynard Keynes to Duncan Grant, 23 January 1913 (British Library)
58. Letter from Maynard Keynes to Duncan Grant, 12 February 1913 (British Library). The first full biography of J. M. Keynes came out in 1944 when this correspondence and Keynes's own sexuality was concealed. His first biographer, Roy Harrod, complained that he had to show the book to 'old Mrs. Keynes, Geoffrey and Mrs. Hill (Margaret Keynes)'. See: Skidlesky, John Maynard Keynes, pp. xx-xxi
59. Letter from Wilson to David Buxton, 7 August 1967 (Buxton papers)
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62. Letter from Emily Ussher to Eglantyne Jebb, 10 January 1913 (Jebb papers)
63. Letter from Maude Holgate to Dorothy Buxton, 7 December 1933 (Jebb papers); Henry Mulock Pilkington, Times (London) Obituary, 6 March 1914, p. 9c
64. Letter from Maud Holgate to Dorothy Buxton, 7 December 1933 (Jebb papers)
65. Eglantyne Jebb (15-19 March 1913), Conversations with a Departed Friend (Jebb papers)
66. Letter to Maude Holgate from Dorothy Buxton, 20 April 1934 (Jebb papers)
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68. Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1938) My Part in a Changing World (London: V. Gollancz)
69. Daily Herald, 16 May 1919
70. Eglantyne Buxton (1965) Miscellaneous notes on Eglantyne Jebb and Dorothy Francis Buxton (Buxton papers copy also at SCF archive)
71. Carolyn Heilburn (1988) Writing a Woman's Life (New York: Norton), pp. 24, 130
72. E. Lawrence (1957) Memories of Save the Children Fund from 1921 (Save the Children Archive)
73. Mahood, 'Feminists, Politics and Children's Charity'
74. Johanna Alberti (1989) Beyond Suffrage (London: Macmillan), pp. 85-86
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80. International Council of Women (1966) Women in a Changing World (London: Routlege), pp. 50-51, 222-223
81. Richard Symonds (1993) Far above Rubies: the women uncommemorated by the Church of England p. 274 (Leominster, UK: Gracewing)
82. Save the Children Fund, General Council Minutes, 3 January 1930
83. Ben Buxton, Cambridge Magazine, p. 76
84. Pesman, 'Autobiography', p. 655
85. Liz Stanley (2001) Mimesis, Metaphor and Representation: holding out an olive branch to the emergent Schreiner canon, Women's History Review, 16, p. 28
86. Letter from Dorothy Buxton to Frau Schreider-Kriger, Geneva, Switzerland, 14 July 1921 (Jebb papers)
87. Times (London), April 15, 1963
88. Letter from Eglantyne Buxton to David Buxton, 29 June 1967 (Buxton papers)
89. 'I wrote several times to Cousin Eglantyne about my dissatisfaction, and once at club I told her verbally most strongly how I felt', Eglantyne Buxton (1986) Notes on Eglantyne Jebb: mostly prompted by the inadequacy of Francesca Wilson's, 'Rebel Daughter of a County House; Letter to Eglantyne Buxton to David Buxton, 11 June 1967 (Buxton papers)
90. Stanley, 'Romantic Friendship'? p. 194