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Excerpt from Jessie Kenney’s unpublished autobiography, 'The Flame and the Flood'.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.
