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
HHR
's sister, Lillian
, was caught in England, without her German husband, by the first world war, when German people were subject to patriotic abuse. She took to calling herself Mrs Lindesay, and became...
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
).
names
Willa Muir
BirthName: Wilhelmina Johnstone Anderson
Nicknames: Minnie; Willa
Married: Muir
Pseudonyms: Alexander Croy; Agnes Neill Scott
She derived this name from that of progressive educationalist A. S. Neill
.
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...
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
Residence
Willa Muir
After seven months in Prague they moved to Dresden.
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press, 1968.
67
There WM
ran into an old friend, A. S. Neill
, who was on his way to Hellerau to set up an experimental school...
Textual Production
Willa Muir
In early March 1965, six years after Edwin
's death and at about the same time that she completed his Living with Ballads, WM
published her edition of his Collected Poems.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
While she...
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.
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.