Ethel Sidgwick (1877-1970) novelist and Save the Children Fund supporter, (SCF/P/2/5 page 55), Cadbury Research Library

Ethel Sidgwick was a popular novelist and member of the Save the Children Fund Council. Educated at Oxford High School and brought up in intellectual circles, her first novel ‘Promise’ was published in 1910 and she went on to write a dozen novels, children’s plays and a biography of her aunt, who was Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge. Her literary skills were put to use in helping Eglantyne Jebb, later founder of the Save the Children Fund, to translate overseas newspapers for the 'Cambridge Magazine'. She was a staunch supporter of Save the Children from its foundation in 1919, serving as a member of Council, member of the Management Committee and chair of the Schools Sub-committee. She wrote several articles for its magazine ‘World’s Children’, and adapted into verse the Declaration of Geneva, originally composed by Eglantyne Jebb, the charity’s founder.

Text by Anne George, Archivist, Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham

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