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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