“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Girl Guides
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Rosemary Sutcliff | Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital
functioned in RS
's life rather like an intermittently attended boarding school. There she joined the Girl Guides
, earned a badge and won a medal. There too she once had... |
| Education | Anne Ridler | Downe House had been founded at Charles Darwin
's old home by Olive Willis
, a remarkable woman who was still headmistress, who exercised an important influence on AR
, and whose biography Ridler later... |
| Performance of text | Ann Jellicoe | The Royal Court
produced AJ
's The Rising Generation, a young people's play which had previously been rejected by the British Girl Guides Association
. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 220-1 |
| Publishing | Ann Jellicoe | The Girl Guides (founded in 1910), having heard that AJ
wrote plays about teenagers, commissioned her in 1960 to write a play for their fiftieth anniversary. It was meant to be performed by four hundred... |
| Textual Production | Juliana Horatia Ewing | Others of her tales which first appeared in the Monthly Packet include The Brownies, 1865 (which became famous for giving its name to the junior branch of the Girl Guides
). Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 21. Gale Research, 1983. 21: 172 |
Timeline
25 July 1907: Robert Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scout...
Building item
25 July 1907
Robert Baden-Powell
founded the Boy Scout
movement. Its purpose was to teach outdoor survival and character building through an approach which moved its learners through successive levels of skills.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.
1910: Robert Baden-Powell and his sister Agnes...
Building item
1910
Robert Baden-Powell
and his sister Agnes
established the Girl Guides
as a sister organization to the Boy Scouts
.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
389
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
463
“History: A Living Story”. World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS): About WAGGGS: How It All Began.
WAGGS online
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell
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