Living the Love: Emily Hobhouse post-war (1918-1926)In 1918 Emily Hobhouse was 58 and a partial invalid. She could have retired to her beloved Cornwall to write her memoirs but the plight of the children of Europe, half starved by war restrictions, called her to new works. Helped by the Save the Children Fund and people of the South Africa, her main scheme was to provide meals for thousands of children in the city of Leipzig, Germany. Then the South Africans remembering how she had helped and encouraged their own women and children in the Anglo Boer war of 1899-1902 gave her money for a house in Cornwall where she could write. Her ashes were interred in the War Memorial in South Africa dedicated to the women and children whom long ago she had done so much to help. Though often sick hers was a life of Service and shows what determination can achieve. |
Contents
Prelude | 1 |
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A Peace that Disturbs | 9 |
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Leipzig and an Appeal to America | 20 |
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We are poor trash all of us without food | 32 |
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Wintertime in Germany A Start in Leipzig | 43 |
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11000 Little Locusts South Africa Helps | 54 |
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An Ambassador | 68 |
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Sickness and South African Generosity | 79 |
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The Hobhouse Foundation 1922 | 104 |
I never did repent for doing good
Merchant of Venice | 114 |
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Writing and MacDonalds Ministry | 127 |
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Last Days and Remembrances | 141 |
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Sources | 157 |
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