the Woman Who Saved Children

Presents the adventures and tribulations of Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children. Once remarking “I don’t care for children…the little wretches”, Eglantyne Jebb was perhaps an unlikely children’s champion. Yet this extraordinary woman devoted her life to establishing the Save the Children movement and pioneering the cause of children’s universal human rights, changing forever the way the world treats children. Full of humour and tragedy, passion and pain, Eglantyne’s story took her from illicit romance in Cambridge to espionage in Serbia, and from private spiritualism in Sussex to public arrest in Trafalgar Square. A testament to the difference that one woman can make, Clare Mulley’s award-winning biography brings to life this humble revolutionary, whose courage and passion helped to save so many children, and whose all too brief life left such an enduring legacy.

Since 1919 Save the Children has fought to uphold the human rights of children worldwide. Now promoted by the likes of Brad Pitt, George Clooney, and Julianne Moore the charity"s founder was a childless spinster whose most famous line, ‘I don"t care for children" makes hers a most unconventional story. Eglantyne"s short life was full of passion and pain, moving from illicit romance in Cambridge to espionage in Serbia. Her achievements in putting children"s universal human rights on the world agenda are a powerful testament to her eccentric charisma and humane vision. Clare Mulley joined Save the Children as a corporate fundraiser in the 1990s. Mother of three daughters, she currently lives in Essex, UK.