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Margaret McMillan - Portrait of a Pioneer (Hardcover)
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Margaret McMillan - Portrait of a Pioneer (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Early Years
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A pioneer of nursery education in inner-city areas, Margaret
McMillan changed the course of British educational history. While
many are aware of the various social reforms she initiated, few are
familiar with the life of the woman herself. Originally published
in 1989, working from her own fresh collection of Margaret
McMillan's letters and newspaper articles, Dr Bradburn tells in
full the inspiring story of a cultured woman who found a new
motivation. Born in America into a middle-class family in 1860,
Margaret McMillan spent most of her life in Britain struggling to
improve the lot of the poor and needy. Outraged by the living and
working conditions of labourers in Victorian England, she turned
her moral indignation into effective action by throwing herself
into a campaign for a more just and compassionate society. She was
a colleague of Keir Hardie, a founder member of the Independent
Labour Party, and worked wholeheartedly from the 1890s for the
betterment and advancement of the human race. J. B. Priestley, who
knew Margaret McMillan when she was a member of the Bradford School
Board, later described as 'one of those terrible nuisances who get
things done and do more good than a load of bishops'. In the light
of discussions on the urgent need for urban renewal and
improvements in nursery education at the time of original
publication, a review of the innovative work of Margaret McMillan
was timely. This well-documented biography gives fascinating
glimpses of a remarkable pilgrimage whose results have not been
effaced by time.
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