Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Alexander Sutherland Neill
Standard Name: Neill, Alexander Sutherland
Used Form: A. S. Neill
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ethel Mannin | This book features an introduction written by A. S. Neill
(founder of the experimental and school Summerhill
, to which Mannin sent her own daughter) and discusses his ideas in detail. |
Textual Production | Willa Muir | |
Friends, Associates | Willa Muir | While teaching at Gipsy Hill, Willa Anderson became a friend of educationist A. S. Neill
(later the founder of Summerhill School
). |
Residence | Willa Muir | After seven months in Prague they moved to Dresden. Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press. 67 |
Occupation | Willa Muir | WS worked with A. S. Neill
in the international section of the experimental school at Hellerau in Germany from June 1922, and briefly again before she and her husband returned to Britain. (Money ran short... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Henry Handel Richardson | Ettie was at first fiercely jealous of her sister, Ada Lillian Lindesay Richardson
(called Lillian or Lil), to the extent of biting her when they were little and later writing demeaning descriptions of Lil's prettiness... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Henry Handel Richardson | |
Occupation | Dora Russell | The Russells based their programme on emerging theories of child education and development. They were partly influenced by recent psychologists (including Freud
and Piaget
), and by such educationalists as Margaret McMillan
and A. S. Neill |
Timeline
Autumn 1924: Educator A. S. Neill, who had been running...
Building item
Autumn 1924
Educator A. S. Neill
, who had been running a progressive school at Hellerau in Germany, then in Austria, opened a school of the same kind called Summerhill
(from the name of the...
Texts
Mannin, Ethel, and Alexander Sutherland Neill. Common-sense and the Child. Jarrolds, 1930.