| Description | This series consists of the papers of Eglantine Jebb, Principal of Froebel Educational Institute between 1932 and 1955. Her papers consist of administrative files, correspondence, invitations, writings for pamphlets and a variety of occasions and events, pamphlets written by others and programmes for student events with original illustrations. Of note, this series includes information about the history of Grove House, Madame Michaelis, writing by Ricardus C. Jebb, and a circular to students informing them of changes to school procedures due to the Second World War.
Administrative files contain mostly correspondence, and file folders are labelled with the following titles: Adshead, Miss Gladys (student 1915-1916); Bedford (Froebel) Training College; Bhopal, Princess Abida, Sultan of; Buchanan and Co. Photographers; Calendar 1951-1952; Cameron and Middleton [surveyors]; Correspondence and accounts; Dr. Barnardo's Homes; Garriga, Miss Montserrat; Grove House School Sundry [including evacuation plans]; Homerton College; Le Play House (Hertfordshire); Miss Graham D.L.; Miss M.T. Moore; Miss Munawar Jahan Rashid; Mlle. Mansion (au pair post); Saunders, Miss D.V.; Staff 1939-1940; Staff 1941-1950; and Visits [to the college].
Writing includes pamphlets on the topics of: Appeal for College Building Fund, Educational Openings for Froebel Trained Teachers, History of Grove House, Knebworth, Lulham Memorial Fund, Montefiore Memorial Fund, New Course of Training in Natural History, Nursery School Training, Personal Memoir of Her Sister, and Rhodes Trustees.
Pamphlet titles are the following: Keats and Egypt by Helen Darbishire; More Popeana: Items from an Unpublished Correspondence, inscribed by author; Mr. Pope on His Grotto by Helen Sard Hughes, inscribed by author; Music as a Spiritual Force by Mr. Stanley Roper; Official Guide to the Castle of Edinburgh by Ancient Monuments and Historic Building H.M. Office of Works; On Aristotle as a Biologist by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson; Plutarch in Renaissance England with Special Reference to Shakespeare by Martha Hale Shackford, inscribed by author; Reading as One of the Fine Arts by Lord David Cecil; Relief Panorama des Rheines; S.P.E. Tract No. XI by E.B., H.W. Fowler and A. Clutton-Brock; The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton; The Homeric House in Relation to the Remains at Tiryns by Ricardus C. Jebb; The King's Library limited "Gull's Hornbook" edition; Thomson and the Countess of Hertford, inscribed by author; and Universitati Litterarum et Artium Bononiensi, including "The Muster-Roll of Angus" by Professor Ricardus C. Jebb.
Correspondents include: Claude G. Montefiore, Ursula Priestman, Phyllis Woodham Smith of Maria Grey Training College, and Kit A. Sauvary, former student, Treasurer of Michaelis Guild and Colet Gardens staff member.
Other documents pertain to women's employment, Judaism and teacher training. |