The Guild of Play was founded by Dame
Grace Kimmins (1871–1954) and others from the
Passmore Edwards Settlement to provide structured play for city girls.
Objective
To provide a civilising influence away from the city streets by reviving the old
Merrie England idealised lifestyle.
Related organisations
*The
Bermondsey Settlement
*The
Chailey Heritage
Chailey Heritage School is a special school located in North Chailey, East Sussex, England. It is owned and operated by the Chailey Heritage Foundation. The school is for children and young adults, aged between 3 and 19, with complex physical ...
*The
Guild of the Poor Brave Things
*The
Passmore Edwards Settlement
Related people of influence
*
John Passmore Edwards
John Passmore Edwards M.P. (24 March 1823 – 22 April 1911) ODNB article by A. J. A. Morris, 'Edwards, John Passmore (1823–1911)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 200 accessed 15 ...
*
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (née Garrett; 11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was an English politician, writer and feminist. She campaigned for women's suffrage by legal change and in 1897–1919 led Britain's largest women's rights associati ...
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Hugh Price Hughes
Hugh Price Hughes (8 February 1847 – 17 November 1902) was a Welsh Protestant clergyman and religious reformer in the Methodist tradition. He served in multiple leadership roles in the Wesleyan Methodist Church. He organised the West London M ...
and wife Katherine
*
Lord Llangattock
*
Mary Neal
*
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence (; 21 October 1867 – 11 March 1954) was a British women's rights activist and suffragette.
Early life
Pethick-Lawrence was born in Bristol as Emmeline Pethick. Her father, Henry Pethick, ...
(sometimes written ''Emmeline Pethick'', or with the hyphen omitted)
*
Mary Ward
*
Brian Kimmins
External links
Grace Kimmins and Playwork
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