Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

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Anthologization Cecil Frances Alexander
CFA contributed pieces to the collection Lyra Anglicana: Hymns and Sacred Songs (which, edited by Robert Hall Baynes and published in 1862, reached sales of thirty thousand within three years and sixty-nine thousand by 1879)...
Textual Production Selina Bunbury
SB also wrote for the Religious Tract Society and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , and she contributed to the Christian Examiner and Cornhill Magazine. Much of this writing was anonymous. She penned...
Textual Production Elizabeth Charles
During her last decade or so, EC published no fewer than sixteen religious works with the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Author summary Elizabeth Charles
Elizabeth Charles wrote novels, poems, and hymns, as well as books on historical and religious subjects. Her entire oeuvre is a testament to her vigorous evangelical convictions; her fiction typically marries religious didacticism with a...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Charles
EC 's religious views were influenced by her admiration for the Clapham Sect ; she published many titles with the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge .
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Textual Production Elizabeth Charles
EC 's "By The Mystery of Thy Holy Incarnation" was published in 1890 by the SPCK .
Publishing Elizabeth Charles
Among EC 's later works was Songs Old and New (1887), a collection of poems.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Though this edition was billed as collected, it was re-issued by the SPCK in 1894 in an edition which...
Publishing Christabel Coleridge
Beginning in 1889, CC published at least two titles a year, not all of which were novels and some of which were written collaboratively. In 1890, she published two novels for young women with the...
Textual Production Wendy Cope
She has followed that with a collection for children, The Orchard Book of Funny Poems (illustrated by Amanda Vesey ), 1993, and with three anthologies published by Faber and Faber :The Funny Side: 101...
politics Caroline Frances Cornwallis
In 1811 CFC became involved, through her father, in the National Society for the Education of the Poor . She wrote to her friends to drum up support and funds for the endeavour. While not...
Publishing Charlotte Dempster
Marjory's Husband was issued by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), with illustrations by J. Nash .
The SPCK was founded in 1698 to establish charity schools and later a high school for girls...
Textual Production Juliana Horatia Ewing
JHE issued her next work, Old Fashioned Fairy Tales, with the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge : they published all her later work.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 21. Gale Research.
21: 171
Textual Production Juliana Horatia Ewing
JHE published through the SPCK her children's story Jackanapes, with seventeen illustrations by Randolph Caldecott .
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 21. Gale Research.
21: 171
Desmarais, Robert J. Randolph Caldecott: His Books and Illustrations for Young Readers. University of Alberta Libraries.
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Textual Production Juliana Horatia Ewing
It is often wrongly thought to have been her last work, from its title in volume form (1885, with the Christian Knowledge Society ) as The Story of a Short Life. It went through...
Publishing Juliana Horatia Ewing
A shilling edition put out in London and New York (in London by the SPCK ) has four full-page and fifteen small monochrome illustrations by Randolph Caldecott , its beige cover, on boards, bearing pictures...

Timeline

8 March 1698: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...

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8 March 1698

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge or SPCK, set up to provide charity schools (and missionary outreach in British colonies), held its first meeting.

1700: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...

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1700

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge founded a High School for Girls at St Martin in the Fields, London.

By November 1700: The recently founded SPCK opened a charity...

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By November 1700

The recently founded SPCK opened a charity school for forty girls at St Andrew's in Holborn, where a boys' school had opened early in the year. Subscribers included Sarah, Lady Cowper for three pounds...

1701: The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel...

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1701

The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (a major Anglican missionary organisation) was founded as an offshoot of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge .

1723: Dr Thomas Bray, who had founded the Society...

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1723

Dr Thomas Bray , who had founded the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , used a bequest from a Dutch secretary to William III to found Dr Bray's Associates , an organization supporting parochial libraries...

1725: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...

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1725

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge commissioned engraver William Caslon to design a typeface; he set up his famous type-foundry nine years later.

7 March 1804: The Bible Society (also known as the British...

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7 March 1804

The Bible Society (also known as the British and Foreign Bible Society ) was founded by Evangelicals to spread the scriptures; it became the cornerstone society of the Evangelical movement.

1811: The National Society for Promoting the Education...

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1885: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...

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1885

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge published the comedicnovelA Woman of Business by Mary Bramston , with illustrations by W. H. Overend .

1894: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...

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1894

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge published Talks to Girls by One of Themselves, on the Difficulties, Duties, and Joys of a Girl's Life.

1919: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...

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1919

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge published The Ministry of Women, a report on women's ministry in the Church of England over the last seventy years.

Texts

Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
Arnold, Thomas. Principles of Church Reform. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
Charles, Elizabeth. "By the Mystery of Thy Holy Incarnation". Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1890.
Waddell, Helen. “Acknowledgements; Note; Introduction”. Between Two Eternities, edited by Felicitas Corrigan, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1993, pp. viii - ix, 1.
Dempster, Charlotte, and Joseph Nash. Marjory’s Husband. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1889.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia, and Randolph Caldecott. Daddy Darwin’s Dovecot. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1884.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. Old Fashioned Fairy Tales. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1882.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia, and Gordon Browne. The Story of a Short Life. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1885.
Gatty, Horatia K. F. Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1885.
Hay-Cooper, L. Josephine Butler and her Work for Social Purity. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1922.
Keary, Annie. Letters of Annie Keary. Editor Keary, Eliza, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1883.
Macquoid, Katharine S., and W. J. Morgan. Puff. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1888.
Maitland, Sara. Awesome God. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2002.
Maycock, Alan Lawson. Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1963.
Molesworth, Mary Louisa. Lettice. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1884.
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
Peard, Frances Mary. The History of the Prayer Book. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1870.
Riddell, Charlotte. For Dick’s Sake. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1886.
Rossetti, Christina. Time Flies. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1885.
Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1911.
Waddell, Helen. Between Two Eternities. Editor Corrigan, Felicitas, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1993.