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Eglantyne Louisa Jebb (* 1845 oder 1846 in Dublin; † 6. November 1925 in Sussex) war eine anglo-irische Sozialreformerin und Anhängerin der Arts-and-Crafts -Bewegung. 1884 gründete sie die Home Arts and Industries Association mit Hauptsitz in London [1], um das Handwerk des Landes wiederzubeleben und Armut zu bekämpfen.
- 1845 oder 1846
- Jebb, Eglantyne Louisa
- anglo-iIrische Sozialreformerin
- Dublin
Eglantyne Louisa Jebb (née Jebb; 1845/1846 - November 1925) was an Anglo-Irish social reformer. A keen supporter of the arts and crafts movement , in 1884 she founded the Home Arts and Industries Association as a way of reviving country crafts and overcoming rural poverty .
- Early Life and Family
- Social Activism, Cambridge 1900–1918
- Geneva 1918–1928
- Personal Life
- Legacy
- Further Reading
Eglantyne Jebb was born in 1876 in Ellesmere, Shropshire, daughter of Arthur Jebb and his wife and cousin, Eglantyne Louisa Jebb, and grew up at "The Lyth", her family's nearby estate. The Jebbs were a well-off family with a strong social conscience and commitment to public service. Her mother had founded the Home Arts and Industries Association, t...
From 1895 to 1898, Jebb read history at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, intending to become a school teacher. Jebb taught for a year at St. Peter's School, Marlborough, (built in 1904, closed July 2017). This convinced Jebb that teaching was not her vocation, though it had increased her awareness of childhood poverty.[citation needed] Jebb moved to Cam...
Eglantyne spent her last ten years in Geneva. As the First World War was coming to an end and the German and Austro-Hungarian economies came near to collapse, it was clear to Dorothy and Eglantyne that the children of these countries were suffering appallingly from the effects of the war and the Allied blockade, which continued even when an armisti...
Before World War I, Jebb had a lesbian relationship with Margaret Keynes (sister of Maynard Keynes). In their extensive correspondence, they shared their wish for a time when they could live together or even live as a married couple. The correspondence reveals a loving and intense relationship that ended with Margaret's marriage to Archibald Hillin...
In 1919, Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton, who converted to the Society of Friends with her husband, founded Save the Children in England and the following year as an international organisation based in Geneva. Save the Children remains active today. A blue plaque was put up in Marlborough to Eglantyne Jebb who had founded Save the Children. In e...
Jebb Archive of the Canton of Geneva.[citation needed]Francesca Mary Wilson (1967). Rebel Daughter of a Country House: the Life of Eglantyne Jebb, Founder of the Save the Children Fund. ASIN B002MS0JTA.- British
- 25 August 1876, Ellesmere, Shropshire, England
6. Jan. 2020 · Eglantyne Jebb. Foto: Archiv Save the Children. Jebb verliert das Verfahren. Und verlässt den Saal dennoch als moralische Siegerin: Tief beeindruckt von ihrem humanitären Einsatz lässt...
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26. Nov. 2014 · Porträt einer Aktivistin des Kinderschutzes. Eglantyne Jebb hebt sich zu jener Zeit durch ihren Aktivismus für die Kinderrechte hervor. Nach ihrem Studienabschluss in Oxford und ihrem Beruf als Lehrerin, den sie schnell aufgab, wendet sie sich der sozialen Aktion im Rahmen der Charity Organisation Society von Cambridge zu.
20. Nov. 2019 · Auch ein Verdienst der Kinderrechtlerin Eglantyne Jebb. Eine Zeitzeugin berichtet, wie ihr Jebbs Organisation Save the Children 1946 im zerstörten Berlin geholfen hat. "Der Lebertran war echt...
Eglantyne Jebb – the woman who founded Save the Children over 100 years ago in 1919 – was one of the world’s most influential champions of children’s rights. It began when Jebb saw something she knew wasn’t right. She saw photos in a newspaper – exploitative, tragic photos showing children starving because Allied troops’ blockades ...
