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Kept me up half the night - really fascinating and moving -beautifully written and paced... wonderful. --Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer and author of The Age of Wonder
Eglantyne Jebb completely revolutionised public perceptions of charity and our collective responsibility towards children. What this excellent book makes plain is that Eglantyne's vision is just as powerful - and relevant - today as it was then. We have come a long way in ninety years, but with millions of children still dying under the age of five around the globe, much more needs to be done. Save the Children, the organisation that Eglantyne co-founded, is working flat out to achieve this. Those who read this book will be inspired - as I am - by a woman who dared to think the impossible and turn it into reality. Her example lays down a challenge to us all. --Jasmine Whitbread, CEO of Save the Children
This book tells the tale of one of the twentieth century's most inspirational women. If everybody fought as hard as she did for what they believe in just think what could be achieved! Since I've been supporting Save the Children I've seen how the organisation is carrying on Eglantyne's work into its ninetieth year. I'd urge anyone to pick up this book and be inspired. -- Paul O'Grady
Sensitive, entertaining and beautifully written, The Woman Who Saved the Children is an absorbing exploration of a life filled with achievement and an enlightening insight into the development of the charity we know today. A sparkling biography of a fascinating woman. --Kate Williams, author of England's Mistress and Becoming Queen.
This is a truly brilliant book, about a woman who changed the world for the better and forever. -- Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister
Kept me up half the night - really fascinating and moving -beautifully written and paced... wonderful. -- Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer and author of The Age of Wonder
Eglantyne Jebb completely revolutionised public perceptions of charity and our collective responsibility towards children. What this excellent book makes plain is that Eglantyne's vision is just as powerful - and relevant - today as it was then. We have come a long way in ninety years, but with millions of children still dying under the age of five around the globe, much more needs to be done. Save the Children, the organisation that Eglantyne co-founded, is working flat out to achieve this. Those who read this book will be inspired - as I am - by a woman who dared to think the impossible and turn it into reality. Her example lays down a challenge to us all. -- Jasmine Whitbread, CEO of Save the Children
Sensitive, entertaining and beautifully written, The Woman Who Saved the Children is an absorbing exploration of a life filled with achievement and an enlightening insight into the development of the charity we know today. A sparkling biography of a fascinating woman. -- Kate Williams, author of England's Mistress and Becoming Queen.
Eglantyne Jebb completely revolutionised public perceptions of charity and our collective responsibility towards children. What this excellent book makes plain is that Eglantyne's vision is just as powerful - and relevant - today as it was then. We have come a long way in ninety years, but with millions of children still dying under the age of five around the globe, much more needs to be done. Save the Children, the organisation that Eglantyne co-founded, is working flat out to achieve this. Those who read this book will be inspired - as I am - by a woman who dared to think the impossible and turn it into reality. Her example lays down a challenge to us all. --Jasmine Whitbread, CEO of Save the Children
This book tells the tale of one of the twentieth century's most inspirational women. If everybody fought as hard as she did for what they believe in just think what could be achieved! Since I've been supporting Save the Children I've seen how the organisation is carrying on Eglantyne's work into its ninetieth year. I'd urge anyone to pick up this book and be inspired. -- Paul O'Grady
Sensitive, entertaining and beautifully written, The Woman Who Saved the Children is an absorbing exploration of a life filled with achievement and an enlightening insight into the development of the charity we know today. A sparkling biography of a fascinating woman. --Kate Williams, author of England's Mistress and Becoming Queen.
This is a truly brilliant book, about a woman who changed the world for the better and forever. -- Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister
Kept me up half the night - really fascinating and moving -beautifully written and paced... wonderful. -- Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer and author of The Age of Wonder
Eglantyne Jebb completely revolutionised public perceptions of charity and our collective responsibility towards children. What this excellent book makes plain is that Eglantyne's vision is just as powerful - and relevant - today as it was then. We have come a long way in ninety years, but with millions of children still dying under the age of five around the globe, much more needs to be done. Save the Children, the organisation that Eglantyne co-founded, is working flat out to achieve this. Those who read this book will be inspired - as I am - by a woman who dared to think the impossible and turn it into reality. Her example lays down a challenge to us all. -- Jasmine Whitbread, CEO of Save the Children
Sensitive, entertaining and beautifully written, The Woman Who Saved the Children is an absorbing exploration of a life filled with achievement and an enlightening insight into the development of the charity we know today. A sparkling biography of a fascinating woman. -- Kate Williams, author of England's Mistress and Becoming Queen.
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'I don t care for children...the little wretches', Eglantyne Jebb wrote bitterly as a young school teacher in 1900. She would never have children of her own, and had no great fondness for those of her family and friends. Yet this unlikely children's champion devoted her life to establishing the Save the Children movement and promoting children's human rights around the world. In her prize-winning biography The Woman Who Saved the Children, Clare Mulley tells the story of how and why a charismatic spinster revolutionized the way the world treats children. Eglantyne's short life was full of humour and tragedy, passion and pain. Her journeys took her from illicit romance in Cambridge to espionage in Serbia, and from private spiritualism in Shropshire to public arrest in Trafalgar Square. With the help of supporters including George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, and Pope Benedict XV, she managed to save millions of young lives and changed the mindset of a generation, before dying aged just fifty-two, her hair prematurely white but her passion undimmed. Meticulously researched, fresh, and immediate, Mulley's account of the adventures and tribulations of a humble revolutionary is a deeply moving testament to the power of humanitarian spirit.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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This is a thoughtful and interesting biography of a wonderful woman who achieved wonderful things. Eglantyne Jebb, a name I had never come across before is most famous for founding the now well loved and internationally recognised charity, Save the Children, a charity which does so much good in the world I could not do it justice in a short paragraph. So it is fantastic that Clare Mulley, in her debut biography, has paid homage to this remarkable champion of children's rights.
Eglantyne herself was almost unbelievable. In an age where war and women's rights should have been enough to occupy the cares and worries of this woman, she selflessly devoted her efforts to raising awareness of the situation of deprived children and changing ingrained attitudes to children's rights.
But alongside a saintly career saving the children, Eglantyne was also a fascinating person. She actually was fairly rude about children, `I don't care for children' she said in 1900 and Mulley revels in her reference to children as `little wretches'. Eglantyne never had any children of her own. She was in love with Marcus Dimsdale, the sixth son of Baron Dimsdale, but he married Elsbeth Philipps in 1902. She then had a passionate affair with a woman, Margaret Hill nee Keynes.
Eglantyne is an extraordinary woman and Clare Mulley had done a fantastic job conveying that to the reader. I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in charities or children's rights, with a love of good biography, or with even an ounce of feminist pride. This was one amazing lady.
Eglantyne herself was almost unbelievable. In an age where war and women's rights should have been enough to occupy the cares and worries of this woman, she selflessly devoted her efforts to raising awareness of the situation of deprived children and changing ingrained attitudes to children's rights.
But alongside a saintly career saving the children, Eglantyne was also a fascinating person. She actually was fairly rude about children, `I don't care for children' she said in 1900 and Mulley revels in her reference to children as `little wretches'. Eglantyne never had any children of her own. She was in love with Marcus Dimsdale, the sixth son of Baron Dimsdale, but he married Elsbeth Philipps in 1902. She then had a passionate affair with a woman, Margaret Hill nee Keynes.
Eglantyne is an extraordinary woman and Clare Mulley had done a fantastic job conveying that to the reader. I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in charities or children's rights, with a love of good biography, or with even an ounce of feminist pride. This was one amazing lady.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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It is a shame, as Clare Mulley writes, that Eglantyne Jebb is all but forgotten today. She deserves more than this. She deserves our recognition, our admiration and our thanks. In the aftermath of World War One Eglantyne was the champion of the children. She helped to save the lives of millions of children in Europe and Russia who were left starving in the wake of one of the worst wars in history. It is unfathomable how she had the determination and the strength of character to do this, and yet she did, and in an age where women were struggling for their own rights and trying to make their own voices heard, let alone the rights of children.
Clare Mulley has a delightful and sophisticated style and a flair for writing which prevents this biography from becoming dry or repetitive. Arguably she has a fantastic subject for the job, yet praise must be bestowed on Mulley for this enthralling book, which at last does justice to a woman who changed national and international attitudes to child protection and founded one of the greatest children's charities in the world. A first-rate read and highly recommended.
Clare Mulley has a delightful and sophisticated style and a flair for writing which prevents this biography from becoming dry or repetitive. Arguably she has a fantastic subject for the job, yet praise must be bestowed on Mulley for this enthralling book, which at last does justice to a woman who changed national and international attitudes to child protection and founded one of the greatest children's charities in the world. A first-rate read and highly recommended.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Clare Mulley's captivating and excellently researched biography is a pleasure to read. With all the over-hashed books on historical figures in the 19th and 20th century, like Queen Victoria, Churchill or Stalin, it is always refreshing to read a biography of someone unsung; someone whose story has not be told and retold into tedium.
Eglantyne Jebb is a woman whose life and work immediately enthralled me. Why did such a beautiful, striking woman never marry? Why did she not want children yet ploughed all her energies into improving the conditions and rights of the young? Eglantyne Jebb is a forgotten national treasure, a pioneer of the early 20th century. She founded Save the Children, now a charitable phenomenon and a life force for hundreds of underprivileged children. She secured one of the most successful UN charters ever introduced, the Convention on the Rights of the Child. She was also interesting on a human level. She had great and tragic love affairs, very real character flaws, and, in my opinion, an understandable aversion to having children of her own... "the little wretches".
Eglantyne Jebb is a woman whose life and work immediately enthralled me. Why did such a beautiful, striking woman never marry? Why did she not want children yet ploughed all her energies into improving the conditions and rights of the young? Eglantyne Jebb is a forgotten national treasure, a pioneer of the early 20th century. She founded Save the Children, now a charitable phenomenon and a life force for hundreds of underprivileged children. She secured one of the most successful UN charters ever introduced, the Convention on the Rights of the Child. She was also interesting on a human level. She had great and tragic love affairs, very real character flaws, and, in my opinion, an understandable aversion to having children of her own... "the little wretches".
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