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Jeanie, an 'Army of One': Mrs Nassau Senior, 1828-1877, the First Woman in Whitehall

Sybil Oldfield

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Description:This first full biography of Mrs. Nassau Senior, 1822–1877, tells how an extraordinary woman escaped from the constraints of Victorian domesticity to become the first woman in Whitehall and one of Britain’s great social reformers. An ardent Christian Socialist radical, like her brother Thomas Hughes (author of Tom Brown’s Schooldays), Jeanie Senior pioneered social work with Octavia Hill, co-founded the British Red Cross in the Franco-Prussian war and battled as ‘Government Inspector’ on behalf of exploited Workhouse girls. She was ferociously attacked for advocating the fostering of all pauper orphans rather than their incarceration and for indicting Workhouse ‘Barrack’ schools for producing prostitution fodder. Her fight to defend her findings against male hostility politicized her and she became an icon for the late 19th century women’s movement. … Jeanie Senior was also a significant figure in the worlds of art, music and literature, even being, it is argued here, the vital inspiration for her friend George Eliot in creating Dorothea, heroine of Middlemarch. Her life was a great ‘human story’ as she struggled in the teeth of multiple bereavement, an unhappy marriage and cancer in order to rescue others more desperate and vulnerable still. Florence Nightingale told her she had been ‘a noble Army of one’ and later grieved that her ‘premature death was a national and irreparable loss’.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jeanie, an 'Army of One': Mrs Nassau Senior, 1828-1877, the First Woman in Whitehall. To get started finding Jeanie, an 'Army of One': Mrs Nassau Senior, 1828-1877, the First Woman in Whitehall, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This first full biography of Mrs. Nassau Senior, 1822–1877, tells how an extraordinary woman escaped from the constraints of Victorian domesticity to become the first woman in Whitehall and one of Britain’s great social reformers. An ardent Christian Socialist radical, like her brother Thomas Hughes (author of Tom Brown’s Schooldays), Jeanie Senior pioneered social work with Octavia Hill, co-founded the British Red Cross in the Franco-Prussian war and battled as ‘Government Inspector’ on behalf of exploited Workhouse girls. She was ferociously attacked for advocating the fostering of all pauper orphans rather than their incarceration and for indicting Workhouse ‘Barrack’ schools for producing prostitution fodder. Her fight to defend her findings against male hostility politicized her and she became an icon for the late 19th century women’s movement. … Jeanie Senior was also a significant figure in the worlds of art, music and literature, even being, it is argued here, the vital inspiration for her friend George Eliot in creating Dorothea, heroine of Middlemarch. Her life was a great ‘human story’ as she struggled in the teeth of multiple bereavement, an unhappy marriage and cancer in order to rescue others more desperate and vulnerable still. Florence Nightingale told her she had been ‘a noble Army of one’ and later grieved that her ‘premature death was a national and irreparable loss’.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jeanie, an 'Army of One': Mrs Nassau Senior, 1828-1877, the First Woman in Whitehall. To get started finding Jeanie, an 'Army of One': Mrs Nassau Senior, 1828-1877, the First Woman in Whitehall, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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