The New Era in Home and School, 3, 12, Oct. 1922, 110, “Schools in which Educational Experiments are Carried Out (Reprinted, with a few additions, from our French Edition)”. The three schools were among the additions. The New Education Fellowship had been constituted in 1921 out of the Theosophical Fraternity in Education.
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Useful accounts areKuhnA. B.Theosophy: a Modern Revival of Ancient Wisdom. N.Y.: Holt, American Religion Series II, 1930; Ransom, Josephine. A Short History of the Theosophical Society. Adyar: T.P.H., 1938; and Ransom, Josephine. The Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Book. Adyar: T.P.H., 1950.
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BlavatskyH. P.The Key to Theosophy. London: T.P.C., 1889, 270–1.
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StewartW. A. C.The Educational Innovators, Volume II: Progressive Schools 1881–1967. London: Macmillan, 1968, 50–64, provides a valuable introduction to Theosophical education.
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KrishnamurtiJ.AlcyoneEducation as Service. Adyar: Theosophist Office, 1912.
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Theosophy in Australasia, 22, 3, June 1, 1916, 65.
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LeadbeaterC. W.Australia and New Zealand the Home of a New Sub-Race. Adyar: T.P.H., 1916.
8.
This account of the schools is a mosaic of facts gleaned from Theosophy in Australasia, the N.S.W. State archives, newspapers, documents in private hands, and interviews. There seems little point in annotating every sentence, or phrase. Full information on sources is provided in R. C. Petersen, Experimental Schools and Educational Experiments in Australia, 1906–1948. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Sydney, 1968, Chs. 2, 4.
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Theosophy in Australasia, 23, 12, January 1, 1918, supplement (Prospectus of Morven Garden School), 1.
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Reminiscences of Schooldays, written for me by Mrs. H. Maguire of Sydney.
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LewisFrancesca“What Shall We Do with Our Children?”Sunday Times, magazine section, June 30, 1929, 23.
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FoxBenson F.“Co-education.”The Ladies' Sphere, 2, 12, February 16, 1920, 26.
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Maguire reminiscences.
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Maguire reminiscences.
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Theosophy in Australasia, 25, 4, July 1, 1919, 90.
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This account is derived from interviews with and letters from former pupils of the school.
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Theosophy in Australasia, 28, 2, May 1, 1922, 391.
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This account is derived mainly from interviews with and letters from former teachers and pupils of the school.
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St. Margaret's, Devonport (Prospectus), Melbourne: Brown Prior Prs. (3).
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ElderEleanor M.“Movement, and the Culture of Expression.”The Theosophist, 37, 6, March, 1918, 616–31.
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Theosophy in Australasia, 27, 4, July 1, 1921, 108–9. This is an anonymous article entitled “An Australian System of Eurhythmics”. It gives a description of the dancing at St. Margaret's, and is almost certainly by Miss Outhwaite.
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NethercotA. H.The Last Four Lives of Annie Besant. London: Hart-Davis, 1963, 77, 177; Stewart, W. A. C., op. cit., 157–8.
