Margaret Lowenfeld

Margaret Frances Jane Lowenfeld was a British pioneer of child psychology and psychotherapy, a medical researcher in paediatric medicine, and an author of several publications and academic papers on the analysis of child development and play. Margaret developed a number of educational techniques which bear her name and have achieved worldwide recognition.

Margaret Lowenfield was born in Lowndes Square in Knightsbridge, London onFebruary 1890. Her father, Henry Lowenfeld, who was from Silesia, had arrived in England in the early 1880s. Although almost penniless he soon became a wealthy businessman through a variety of ventures, including the buying up of rundown theatres in the West End of London and starting Kops Brewery in Fulham, selling nonalcoholic beer at the time the temperance movement took hold. He married Alice Evans, who was British, in 1884. Margaret was educated locally at a Church of England school and later attended Cheltenham Ladies College in Gloucestershire, England along with her older sister, Helena Rosa Wright who went on to be an influential figure in birth control and family planning.

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