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- Girl Guides,
- Nesta Maude Ashworth,
- Wartime Memoirs,
- Women in War,
- Women Autobiography,
- Women Leaders,
- Baden-Powell
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Nesta Maude Ashworth, Silver Fish: An Autobiography
A Guiding Life
by
Nesta Maude Ashworth
Collected here are the memoirs of an inspirational woman, lovingly compiled and annotated by her two daughters, Mary Ashworth and Margaret Spencer.
Nesta Maude was born on August 13, 1893, the youngest of three surviving children of Claudine and Edmund Maude. She had two older brothers, Alan and Ronald, and Edmund was disappointed when the next baby was a girl. Nesta soon learned that girls were not as important as boys and from an early age challenged this assumption. If boys could ride their bicycles recklessly, so could girls. If boys could be scouts, so could girls, and with this challenge she began her life- long service to what was to become, because of her and a few others, the internationally known Girl Guide Association. In her adult life, she continued to challenge the notion of male supremacy, and served in both the First and Second World Wars. If men could drive tractors and trucks, so could women – and so went the story of her life.
Contributors
- Author
- Nesta Maude Ashworth
- Editor
- Mary Ashworth
- Editor
- Margaret Spencer
