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Ellen Constance Nightingale

A Life

John Griffiths Pedley

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English
Gnatbooks
24 February 2022
"Ellen Constance ""Connie"" Nightingale (1892-1967) was a leading advocate for women's rights and, in an age when girls' education was given scant attention, for the education of girls. Headmistress of Dr. Williams' School, Dolgellau (1924-40) and The Mount School, York (1940-8), she drove these schools forward, increasing student and staff numbers, broadening the curriculum, and alerting young women to events and cultural attitudes in the wider world, as well as career opportunities.

Born in Burnley, a cotton town in northwest England, in straitened circumstances, she attended the local Grammar School, one of the first of her gender to be admitted. Armed with degrees from the University of Manchester (B.A. 1913, M.A. 1914) in Classics, she taught at Lady Manners School, one of England's first coeducational schools, before moving to Bootham, a Quaker school in York. Her commitment to the Quaker way of life, her interest in the cause of peace, and her sympathy for refugees drew her, at the end of World War I, to the Paris Peace Conference. Helped by Ronald Burrows, her Professor of Greek at Manchester and a friend of Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos, she was able to join the Greek delegation at the talks.

In Paris she met Konstantinos Spanoudis, a leader of the Greek delegation and owner of the newspaper Proodos (Progress) in Constantinople. Invited to Constantinople,

she worked there both as a journalist and on the difficulties facing refugees. While returning to London in September 1920, she met Alexis Aladin, a Russian soldier with a deep history in Russian politics. Their friendship is recorded in substantial correspondence now housed in the John Rylands Library.

In retirement she devoted her time to the United Nations Association, the International Council of Women, and the National Council of Women. Her work is well described by the President of the ICW, who wrote of her ""contributing much to discussion and action from the limitless resources of an erudite mind and an urbane and compassionate spirit."" The principal contributions of her life-in education, international affairs, and women's rights-were clear for all to see."
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Imprint:   Gnatbooks
Dimensions:   Height: 244mm,  Width: 170mm,  Spine: 8mm
Weight:   236g
ISBN:   9780578351322
ISBN 10:   0578351323
Pages:   142
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

"John Griffiths Pedley is Emeritus Professor of Classical Archaeology and Greek at the University of Michigan and past Director of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. He is the author of numerous books, on topics as varied as Greek sanctuaries, Sardis, Greek sculpture, and South Italian archaeology and architecture.Joining the Michigan faculty as Assistant Professor in 1965, he was promoted Associate in 1968 and Professor in 1974. He served as Acting Chair of the Department of Classical Studies for two years in the 1970s and as Director of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology during 1973-86. In 1978 he received a Senior Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award. In 1996-7 he was appointed Distinguished Senior Lecturer and received the Warner G. Rice Humanities Award. He has served as Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University, as Resident in Archaeology at the American Academy in Rome, and as Guest Scholar at the J. Paul Getty Museum.In the course of his career he has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American research Institute in Turkey, Harvard University, the American Philosophical Society and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and numerous awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities for improvements to the collections and programs of the Kelsey Museum.He is pleased to have been able to research and relate the life of Ellen Constance ""Connie"" Nightingale-his aunt by marriage."

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