From Daisy’s earliest years, when her parents survived the strain of the US Civil War that pitted Nellie’s family in Chicago against her husband, a Confederate officer, the Gordons managed to maintain their status and survive the odds. Her many accomplished siblings helped provide family connections and a support network that Daisy relied upon throughout her life.
Daisy’s mother, Nellie Kinzie Gordon, appears to have been a real force of nature, while William Washington Gordon, Daisy’s cotton merchant father, became an important ally for Daisy in her adult life. First, Cordery delves into the rich life of the Gordon family, a tight-knit clan with significant connections in both the North and the South. For Cordery, four influences profoundly shaped the person who became Daisy Low, and these four influences form the bulk of her analysis. Cordery focuses primarily on Daisy’s early life in order to explain the circumstances that led her to embark upon the adventure of running a national youth organization. In 2012, the centennial year of the Girl Scouts of the USA, Stacy Cordery has taken the famous image and provided a back story that helps explain how a woman from Savannah, Georgia, was able to export a British youth movement to the United States and make it work.Ĭordery’s biography is painstakingly researched and filled with rich detail from the voluminous correspondence that Juliette “Daisy” Low maintained during her lifetime. Millions of American girls have heard of Low, and they may even know small details of her life, but for most, she is an image in a guidebook-merely a famous name. While it is surprising that someone as famous as Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA, has never been featured in a scholarly biography, the lack of coverage is understandable.
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