Collection GB 0366 SI - ISAACS, Susan Sutherland (1885-1948)

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GB 0366 SI 1928-1979 collection 7 boxes Isaacs , Susan Sutherland , 1885-1948 , teacher and child psychologist

Susan Isaacs (1885-1948) née Fairhurst, trained as a teacher and gained a degree in philosophy from Manchester University in 1912. Following a period as a research student at the Psychological Laboratory, Cambridge, she was Lecturer at Darlington Training College, 1913-1914, and then lecturer in logic at Manchester University, 1914-1915. Between 1924 and 1927 she was Head of Malting House School, Cambridge, an experimental school which fostered the individual development of children. Isaacs also trained and practised as a psychoanalyst. In 1933 she became the first Head of the Department of Child Development at the Institute of Education, University of London, where she established an advanced course in child development for teachers of young children. Between 1929 and 1940 she was also an 'agony aunt' under the pseudonym of 'Ursula Wise', replying to readers' problems in child care journals. She married twice, firstly to William Brierley and secondly (in 1922) to Nathan Isaacs.

Papers of Susan Sutherland Isaacs, 1928-1979, including personalia; some correspondence relating to students at the Institute of Education, University of London, 1933-1939; press cuttings relating to her writings as 'Ursula Wise' from the journals Nursery World and Home and School, 1929-1940; a few published papers, articles and drafts, notably of An introduction to psychology (Methuen, London, 1928).

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The papers of Susan's husband, Nathan Isaacs, are also held (DC/NI) and there is material relating to her work in the Department of Child Development in the records of the Institute of Education (IE) and in the papers of Dorothy Gardner (DC/DG).

Further papers of Susan Isaacs are held by the Institute of Psychoanalysis, and in the British and Foreign School Society Archives at Brunel University.

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Papers of Susan Sutherland Isaacs, 1928-1979, including personalia; some correspondence relating to students at the Institute of Education, University of London, 1933-1939; press cuttings relating to her writings as 'Ursula Wise' from the journals Nursery World and Home and School, 1929-1940; a few published papers, articles and drafts, notably of An introduction to psychology (Methuen, London, 1928).

Open.

A reader wishing to publish any quotation of information, including pictorial, derived from any archive material must apply in writing for prior permission from the Librarian or other appropriate person(s) as indicated by the Archivist. A limited number of photocopies may be supplied at the discretion of the Archivist.

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English

The papers of Susan's husband, Nathan Isaacs, are also held (DC/NI) and there is material relating to her work in the Department of Child Development in the records of the Institute of Education (IE) and in the papers of Dorothy Gardner (DC/DG).

Further papers of Susan Isaacs are held by the Institute of Psychoanalysis, and in the British and Foreign School Society Archives at Brunel University.

• English