This first full biography of Mrs. Nassau Senior, 18221877, tells how an extraordinary woman escaped from the constraints of Victorian domesticity to become the first woman in Whitehall and one of Britain s great social reformers. An ardent Christian Socialist radical, like her brother Thomas Hughes (author of Tom Brown s Schooldays), Jeanie Senior pioneered social work with Octavia Hill, co-founded the British Red Cross in the Franco-Prussian war and battled as Government Inspector on behalf of exploited Workhouse girls. She was ferociously attacked for advocating the fostering of all pauper...