Juliette Gordon Low : the remarkable founder of the Girl Scouts / Stacy A. Cordery.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Viking, 2012.Description: xiv, 382 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0670023302 : HRD
  • 9780670023301
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 369.463092
LOC classification:
  • HS3268.2.L68 C67 2012
Contents:
Civil War and the problem of loyalties -- A Savannah childhood -- Schooling in the South and beyond -- Emotional upheaval -- Broken hearts -- Omens and weddings -- The whirl of married life -- Wars, colonial and domestic -- A parting of the ways -- Journeys -- General Sir Robert Baden-Powell -- The Savannah Girl Guides -- The excitement of Girl Scouting -- Good deeds -- Girl Scouting in the roaring twenties -- Making new friends internationally -- Epilogue: "long live the Girl Scouts!".
Summary: Recounts the life of the woman who founded the sister organization to the Boy Scouts, originally called the Girl Guides, giving meaning and purpose in her privileged but unfulfilling existence as the wife of a British aristocrat.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-366) and index.

Civil War and the problem of loyalties -- A Savannah childhood -- Schooling in the South and beyond -- Emotional upheaval -- Broken hearts -- Omens and weddings -- The whirl of married life -- Wars, colonial and domestic -- A parting of the ways -- Journeys -- General Sir Robert Baden-Powell -- The Savannah Girl Guides -- The excitement of Girl Scouting -- Good deeds -- Girl Scouting in the roaring twenties -- Making new friends internationally -- Epilogue: "long live the Girl Scouts!".

Recounts the life of the woman who founded the sister organization to the Boy Scouts, originally called the Girl Guides, giving meaning and purpose in her privileged but unfulfilling existence as the wife of a British aristocrat.

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