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Author Dunstan, Petà, author

Title Campaigning for life : a biography of Dorothy Frances Buxton / Petà Dunstan
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : The Lutterworth Press, 2018
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 269 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Genealogical tables:; Jebb family tree; Buxton family tree; Chapter 1. Jebb family life; Chapter 2. A soul mate; Chapter 3. Married life and politics; Chapter 4. Experiencing the struggle; Chapter 5. Saving the children; Chapter 6. Battling the personal; Chapter 7. Ultimate questions; Chapter 8. Exercising influence; Chapter 9. To face loss again; Chapter 10. Obedient to the end; Chapter 11. Not yet silenced?; Appendix: Charlie's praise for Dorothy; Bibliography for use with the footnotes
Summary The first biography of the early twentieth-century social reformer who was instrumental in founding the charity Save the Children
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-263) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Buxton, Dorothy Frances
Save the Children Fund (Great Britain) -- History
SUBJECT Save the Children Fund (Great Britain) fast
Subject Women social reformers -- Great Britain -- Biography
Social reformers -- Great Britain -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Activists.
Social reformers
Women social reformers
Great Britain
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
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0718847695
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