Ann Jellicoe (educationalist)

[1] Anne married John Jellicoe, a flour miller on 28 October 1846 in Mountmellick[1][2] and moved to Clara, County Offaly two years later.

Carter provided vocational training for girls at her school and invented Mountmellick Embroidery, proving to Jellicoe that work could liberate women.

[3] The Jellicoes moved to Dublin in 1858 where she helped revive Cole Alley Infant School for poor children of all religions run by the Quakers.

She was asked to present a paper at the 1861 meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science on the conditions of women working in factories in Dublin.

[3] Jellicoe quickly found that the gentlewomen attending the courses thought working for wages was taboo and social suicide.

[6] Potential employers began to show an interest in Institute graduates, most prominently the Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company, which provided equipment and its head engineer as a teacher.

[8] Anne died suddenly in Birmingham whilst visiting her brother on 18 October 1880 aged 57 and she is buried at the Friends' burial-ground at Rosenallis.