Winner of the Daily Mail Biographers Club prize 2007
'This is a truly brilliant book, about a woman who changed the world for ever and for better...'
xxxxxGordon Brown, 2010
Welcome
Hello and welcome to my website. Here you can find out more about my biography of Eglantyne Jebb, the complex and charismatic founder of the international Save the Children movement who confessed she was 'not fond' of children. 'I suppose it is a judgement on me for not caring about children that I'm made to talk all day long about the universal love of humanity towards them' she wrote with typical dry humour after Save the Children started operations in 1919. Eglantyne's pioneering vision and amazing life-story still have the power to challenge assumptions about whether and why the world cares for children, and what contribution anyone with the right combination of determination and imagination can make. I hope you enjoy finding out a little more about her on these pages, and even more in the book! Happy browsing, ClareInterview with Clare Mulley
Clare Mulley on Mount Salève where Eglantyne Jebb drafted her statement of children’s rights that evolved into the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; the most universally accepted human rights instrument in history.