Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

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Textual Production Helen Waddell
Between Two Eternities, A Helen Waddell Anthology was posthumously published by Felicitas Corrigan of Stanbrook Abbey through the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge .
Dated from Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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Textual Production Sarah Trimmer
ST sought and received support from the Church of England and the from Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, or SPCK .
Staves, Susan. “Church of England Clergy and Women Writers”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, pp. 81-103.
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Publishing Sarah Trimmer
The full title was A Comparative View of the New Plan of Education promulgated by Mr. Joseph Lancaster, in his Tracts concerning the Instruction of the Children of the Labouring Part of the Community; and...
Publishing Catherine Talbot
CT must have written this by 1754, when George Berkeley transcribed it with notes on making use of it for his sermons. His copy (now British Library Additional MS 46689) is titled Meditations. It...
Characters Menella Bute Smedley
The novel opens as the hero, Sydney Lennard, a surgeon with feminine sensitivity to the suffering of his patients, wearily arrives home at the end of the day to his mother and sisters. Not long...
Textual Production Christina Rossetti
CR published with the Society for the Promotion of Christian KnowledgeSeek and Find: A Double Series of Short Studies of the Benedicite.
The Benedicite is a canticle (used in the Anglican service of...
Textual Production Christina Rossetti
CR published with the Society for Promoting Christian KnowledgeTime Flies: A Reading Diary.
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Christina Rossetti
CR published The Face of the Deep: A Devotional Commentary on the Apocalypse, again with the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge .
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne.
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Textual Production Christina Rossetti
The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge issued Verses, a substantial collection of devotional poetry by CR . It was the second of her volumes to bear this title.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
politics Christina Rossetti
CR , despite her poor health and her disavowal of the role of political poet, was keenly interested in political events and connected herself with contemporary political movements in a range of ways. Her father's...
Textual Production Charlotte Riddell
CR 's For Dick's Sake appeared under the auspices of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , in their Penny Library of Fiction.
Ellis, Stewart Marsh. Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu, and Others. Books for Libraries Press.
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Textual Production Frances Mary Peard
FMP published through the SPCK , as the Author of One Year, a High Anglican work entitled The History of the Prayer Book.
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Textual Features Harriett Mozley
Her letters, on the evidence of those included in Dorothea Mozley 's Newman Family Letters (published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1962), are highly intelligent and entertaining. As a girl she rattles...
Textual Production Mary Louisa Molesworth
MLM 's Lettice appeared, the first of her works to be published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK).
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
The editor of this second selection of Mitford's letters was Henry Chorley . Her Correspondence with Charles Boner and John Ruskin followed in 1914. R. Brimley Johnson published another selection of her letters in 1925...

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.