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Jessie Oriana Huxley (1858–1878)
Jessie Oriana Waller (1878–1927)

1858–1927

Daughter of Henrietta Anne and Thomas Henry Huxley. Married Frederick William Waller, architect, in 1878. Shared her mother’s interest in Moravian principles of education, and published an article, ‘Mental and physical training of children’, in 1889.

Sources

Bibby 1959

R. W. Clark 1968

A. Desmond 1994–7

London, England, Church of England marriages and banns, 1754–1921 (Ancestry.com, accessed 12 May 2016)

Waller 1889.

Bibliography

Bibby, Cyril. 1959. T. H. Huxley. Scientist, humanist and educator. London: Watts.

Clark, Ronald W. 1968. The Huxleys. London: Heinemann.

Desmond, Adrian. 1994–7. Huxley. 2 vols. London: Michael Joseph.

Waller, Jessie Oriana. 1889. Mental and physical training of children. Nineteenth Century 26: 659–67.

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