%0 Journal Article
%T ¡®Let Us Go Then, You and I¡¯ ¨C Journeying with Ada Eliot Sheffield
%A Ian Shaw
%J Qualitative Social Work
%@ 1741-3117
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1473325017699454
%X My purpose in this article is to illustrate how framing social work in the life world of Ada Sheffield, a largely forgotten woman, yields not only knowledge and understanding, but may exemplify a way of doing social work history. The article draws on two kinds of material. First, I have developed a provisional, if still incomplete, bibliography of her work, included as an annex to this article. Second, I have searched the various Eliot archives in the USA and England to discover what survives of her correspondence. Through her surviving correspondence with her brother, T S (¡®Tom¡¯) Eliot, I take Ada Sheffield¡¯s life experiences and thoughts ¨C her self-consciousness ¨C as the frame, wishing insistently to hear her voice. The article is written largely around a single year, which acts as a point of balance for her life. I conclude with several more direct suggestions for social work implications. I briefly attempt an outline of what would constitute her intellectual biography
%K Ada Sheffield
%K archives
%K social work history
%K sociology
%K women in social work
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1473325017699454