author
Inez Bigwood
Best known for coauthoring early 20th-century school readers and World War I story collections, this educator wrote with young readers in mind. Her books blend history, patriotism, and clear teaching in a way that reflects the classroom world she worked in.
2 Audiobooks
Winning a Cause: World War Stories
by John G. (John Gilbert) Thompson, Inez Bigwood
Lest We Forget: World War Stories
by John G. (John Gilbert) Thompson, Inez Bigwood
About the author
Inez Bigwood was an early 20th-century educator and writer who worked with John Gilbert Thompson on books for students and teachers. A Project Gutenberg text of Winning a Cause identifies Thompson as principal of the State Normal School in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and Bigwood as an instructor in children's literature there, giving a rare concrete glimpse of her professional life.
Her known books include Lest We Forget: World War Stories, Winning a Cause: World War Stories, and The Thompson Readers: Manual for Teachers. Together, these works suggest a writer deeply involved in educational reading—especially books that helped young people learn language, history, and civic ideals.
Because so little biographical material about her appears to be widely available online, Bigwood is best understood through her work: practical, purposeful books shaped for classrooms and younger readers during and just after World War I. That relative obscurity also adds a certain fascination—her voice survives most clearly in the stories and teaching materials she helped create.