Eglantyne Jebb was a teacher, social investigator and founder of the Save the Children Fund. Her 'Declaration of the Rights of the Child', adopted by League of Nations, shows evolution from Charity Organization Society model to philosophy of international mutual responsibility, children's rights and humanitarianism.

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LINDA MAHOOD is Associate Professor of History at the University of Guelph in Canada. She is author of The Magdalenes and Policing Gender Class and Family and articles in history of gender, sexuality history of juvenile delinquency and children's welfare agencies.

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Prologue: No Silk-Blouse Social Worker The Lady Bountiful and the Country Squire: Lessons in Life, Love and Woodcarving Raising Rebel Daughters: Lessons for Lives of Social Action Educating Eglantyne: The Young Lady of Lady Margaret Hall Ribbons and Trumpets: Toils and Troubles at Teacher Training College 'Hewing out my Future in Defiance to my Friends:' The Life and Times of a Gentlewoman School Mistress Matchmaking Matrons and the Misread Maidens of the Cambridge Charity Organization Society Honour thy Mother: Duty vs 'Free Unsheltered Life Fraught with Pitfalls and Danger' The Sisters and Social Action 'A Perfect Jungle of Intrigues, Suspicion and Hypocrisies:' The Early Save the Children Fund in Time of Crisis 'Internationalization' of Charity in Peacetime: Declaring the Rights of the Child