Excerpt from Jessie Kenney's unpublished autobiography #3
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Title
Excerpt from Jessie Kenney's unpublished autobiography #3
Subject
Family
Description
Excerpt from Jessie Kenney’s unpublished autobiography, 'The Flame and the Flood'.
In this excerpt, Jessie provides a sketch of her sister Jane, who went on to become a teacher trained in the Montessori method. “She inherited from my father and mother her love of children and had the gift of understanding them”, writes Jessie. Although interested in advancing women’s rights, Jane was not prepared to forgo her teaching vocation to become a Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) organiser. Later, she went to Rome to study under Dotessora Montessori and taught in Italian village schools, before being transferred to the U.S., where she and Caroline, another Kenney sister, worked at the Lenox School. The excerpt also contains details and anecdotes about the school life at Lenox and the sisters' characters and habits.
In this excerpt, Jessie provides a sketch of her sister Jane, who went on to become a teacher trained in the Montessori method. “She inherited from my father and mother her love of children and had the gift of understanding them”, writes Jessie. Although interested in advancing women’s rights, Jane was not prepared to forgo her teaching vocation to become a Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) organiser. Later, she went to Rome to study under Dotessora Montessori and taught in Italian village schools, before being transferred to the U.S., where she and Caroline, another Kenney sister, worked at the Lenox School. The excerpt also contains details and anecdotes about the school life at Lenox and the sisters' characters and habits.
Creator
Kenney, Jessie
Source
Kenney Papers, University of East (UEA) Anglia Archives
Publisher
Unknown
Date
19??
Rights
Copyright: Estate of Jessie Kenney. All rights reserved. Included here by kind permission of Warwick Kenney-Taylor (son of Annie Kenney) and later generations of the Kenney and Taylor families.
Format
jpeg image file
Language
English (United Kingdom)
Identifier
KP/JK/4/2/2/3
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Paper
Collection
Citation
Kenney, Jessie, “Excerpt from Jessie Kenney's unpublished autobiography #3,” Suffragette Stories, accessed June 12, 2025, https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/items/show/91.