The Woman Who Saved the Children

A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb: Founder of Save the Children

Clare Mulley

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Year: 2009
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781780740683
• Subtopic: Historical Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

The adventures and tribulations of Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children, and humble revolutionary

Winner of the 2007 Daily Mail Biographer’s Club Prize

An unconventional biography of an unconventional woman. Eglantyne Jebb, not particularly fond of children herself, nevertheless dedicated her life to establishing Save the Children and promoting her revolutionary concept of human rights. In this award-winning book, Clare Mulley brings to life this brilliant, charismatic, and passionate woman, whose work took her between drawing rooms and war zones, defying convention and breaking the law.

Eglantyne Jebb not only helped save millions of lives, she also permanently changed the way the world treats children.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Family Trees
• Illustrations
• Cast of Characters
• 1. Imagining Eglantyne, 2009–1876
• 2. Meeting the Family, 1876–1894
• 3. Unravelling Her Surroundings, 1895–1898
• 4. Testing the Maternal Impulse, 1898–1900
• 5. Happy Days, 1901–1902
• 6. Brief Studies in Social Questions, 1902–1910
• 7. Love Letters, 1907–1913
• 8. Relief in ‘The Barbarous Balkans’, 1913
• 9. Conversations with the Dead, 1914–1915
• 10. Surrounded by Action, 1914–1916
• 11. Found in Translation, 1917–1919
• 12. Save the Children, 1919
• 13. Hearts and Minds, 1919–1920
• 14. ‘Supranationalism’, 1920–1923
• 15. The Rights of the Child, 1922–1925
• 16. Blue Plaques, 1920–2009
• Epilogue: Truths and Lives
• The International Save the Children Alliance
• Endnotes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Plates