Grace Eleanor Hadow
Grace Eleanor Hadow OBE | |
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Born | Cirencester, England | 9 December 1875
Died | 19 January 1940 Marylebone, London | (aged 64)
Resting place | Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford |
Occupation | Author, principal of St Anne's College, Oxford and vice-chairman of the Women's Institute |
Language | English |
Nationality | British |
Education | Brownshill Court School |
Alma mater | Somerville College, Oxford |
Notable works | Chaucer and His Times, Wayfaring in Olden Times, The Oxford Treasury of English Literature |
Grace Eleanor Hadow
Life
Hadow was born in 1875 at South Cerney vicarage, near Cirencester. She was the youngest child and fourth daughter of the Reverend William Elliott Hadow and Mary Lang née Cornish. Her godfather was Sir William Henry Hadow who was also her elder brother.[3]
In 1888, aged 13, Hadow won a scholarship to study at Brownshill Court School, Stroud. From the age of 16 she attended Truro High School, where she was head girl.[4] In 1894, she went to Trier in Germany for a year to study language and music. From 1899 to 1900, she taught at Cheltenham Ladies' College. In 1900, she began to study English at Somerville College, Oxford,[3] but as a woman she was not allowed to receive a degree, although she could sit exams and took first-class honours in 1903.[5] While a student, she became president of the Women's Debating Society.
In 1903, Hadow went to teach at
Hadow was a Suffragist and established the Cirencester Women's Suffrage Society. This was affiliated to Millicent Fawcett's National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and she was Honorary Secretary from 1911 to 1917. She was also the Secretary of the Cirencester branch of the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association.[7]
During the
From February 1917 she had responsibility for the health and welfare of women munitions workers at the
In 1921 she declined the position of
In 1938, she was the only British woman delegate at the
Publications
- Oxford Treasury of English Literature, edited with her brother, W. H. Hadow (3 vols, 1907–8)
- Ideals of Living (1911) Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, England
- Clara Schumann: An Artist's Life (1913) translated and edited by Hadow from Berthold Litzmann's German original
- Chaucer and His Times (1914) Williams and Norgate, London
- Wayfaring in Olden Times (1928) Pamphlet published by the BBC, London
References
- ^ 1920s, Women's Institute, UK.
- ISBN 1-86064-502-X.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33630. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "Books of Today". Western Morning News. 26 April 1946. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
A former head girl of Truro High School and a notable figure in the academic life of Oxford is the subject of Helena Dencke's " Grace Hadow" (Oxford Press 10s 6d).
- ^ St Anne's College website
- ^ Grace Eleanor Hadow (1907). The Oxford Treasury of English Literature: Growth of the drama. Clarendon Press.
- ISBN 1-86064-502-X.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - ^ "National Federation of Women's Institutes | The origins". www.thewi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 20 October 2017. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
- ^ Helena Deneke, Grace Hadow (Oxford University Press, 1946), p. 76.
- ^ George Smith, Elizabeth Peretz and Teresa Smith, Social enquiry, social reform and social action, one hundred years of Barnett House (Oxford University Department of Social Policy and Intervention, 2014), p. 45; Deneke, Grace Hadow, pp. 89-90.
- ^ Jeremy Burchardt, “‘A new rural civilization’: village halls, community and citizenship in the 1920s” in The English Countryside between the Wars: Regeneration or Decline? ed. Paul Brassly, Lynne Thompson and Jeremy Burchardt (Boydell Press, 2006), pp. 29-30.
- ^ Justin Davis Smith, 100 Years of NCVO and Voluntary Action (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 39-40.
- ^ Sir Horace Plunkett Papers, National Library of Ireland, MS 42,222/41 (diary entry for 13 March 1921).
- ^ "Biographies of St Anne's College Principals: Grace Hadow (1929–40)". St Anne's College, Oxford. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
- ^ Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board: Grace Hadow