Isabel Grubb
Born20 September 1881
Died1972
OccupationHistorian
NationalityIrish

Isabel Grubb (20 September 1881 – 1972) was an Irish historian, who studied the Quakers in Ireland. She became a major authority on the subject.

Life and work

Isabel was born in 1881 to Joseph Ernest Grubb and Hannah Rebecca Jacob, corn merchants and Quakers in Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland.[1]

She gained her master's degree from the University of London in 1916 with a thesis about Irish Quakerism: "Social conditions in Ireland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as illustrated by early Quaker records. She later studied at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre and became a fellow there in 1926. She taught at Mountmellick School in around 1911. She also taught in a handful of British schools, including Sidcot School (1920–1924).

Grubb worked within the Society and as curator and clerk in the Historical Library of the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland, resigning only in 1955, as the commute from where she lived in Waterford had become too much for her. Her work there meant she was also travelling around the world.[2][3][4]

As a historian and Quaker, Grubb was the main authority on the subject in Ireland.[2][5][6]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Irish genealogy" (PDF). church records. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  2. ^ a b Goodbody (1972). "Isabel Grubb (1881-1972)". The Journal of the Friends Historical Society. 53 (1).
  3. ^ History women. Editoriale Jaca Book. 2005. pp. 72–. ISBN 978-88-16-72046-6.
  4. ^ Smith N. C. (2006). "Non-Academic Women Historians, 1922–1949". A 'Manly Study'?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. doi:10.1057/9780230596481. ISBN 9780230596481.
  5. ^ MICHAEL AHERN. "THE QUAKERS OF COUNTY TIPPERARY 1655–1924" (PDF). NUI MAYNOOTH.
  6. ^ "A Case Study of Portlaw County Waterford" (PDF). Waterford co council.
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