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Clare Mulley

Clare Mulley 2009 on 'The Woman Who Saved the Children'

Interviewee(s)
Clare Mulley

Introduction

Every so often I wonder how these big charities that do so much work came into being - well earlier this year award winning biographer Clare Mulley's book 'The Woman Who Saved the Children' was sent to me. It was the biography of Eglantyne Jebb who with her sister Dorothy founded the charity 'Save the Children' - of course I was utterly fascinated and emailed Clare a few questions about Eglantyne which she has answered indepth.


Interview

VW: What inspired you to write about Eglantyne Jebb?

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The Woman Who Saved the Children

Author
Clare Mulley
Genre
Review

Clare Mulley's biography of Eglantyne Jebb "The Woman Who Saved the Children" is informative, warm and very personal. Through her award winning writing she has brought to life a very unsual woman that time has forgotten.

The charity Save the Children was founded by Eglantyne Jebb and her sister Dorothy Frances Buxton in 1919, after Eglantyne's visit to Eastern Europe and Germany in 1918 and saw for herself the dying children there and profoundly wanted to do something about it. 

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