“The Child of the Future: When the Stains are Washed Away”

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Title“The Child of the Future: When the Stains are Washed Away”
Year for Search1912
AuthorsMcMillan, Margaret(1860-1931)
Secondary TitleThe Labour Leader
Volume / Edition52.9
Pagination826
Date PublishedDecember 26, 1912
KeywordsEnglish author, Female author, Scottish author
Annotation

A brief eutopia depicting healthy young girls in a future where children are fed right, get good health care, and learn how to correctly care for themselves. The author includes one-paragraph exhortation to the Labour Party saying that it needs to learn what needs to be done to produce the eutopia.

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

The female author (1860-1931) was born in the United States of Scottish parents, but, after her father’s death when she was four, her mother took her back to Scotland where she was raised and educated with further education in Germany. She lived in London from 1888, where became known as a pioneer of nursery education. On the author, see Carolyn Steedman, Childhood, Culture and Class in Britain: Margaret McMillan, 1860-1931. London: Virago, 1990.
Full Text

1912 McMillan, Margaret (1860-1931). “The Child of the Future: When the Stains are Washed Away.” The Labour Leader 52.9 (December 26, 1912): 826. NN, NNU

A brief eutopia depicting healthy young girls in a future where children are fed right, get good health care, and learn how to correctly care for themselves. The author includes one-paragraph exhortation to the Labour Party saying that it needs to learn what needs to be done to produce the eutopia. The female author was born in the United States of Scottish parents, but, after her father’s death when she was four, her mother took her back to Scotland where she was raised and educated with further education in Germany. She lived in London from 1888, where became known as a pioneer of nursery education. On the author, see Carolyn Steedman, Childhood, Culture and Class in Britain: Margaret McMillan, 1860-1931. London: Virago, 1990.