Theodore Parker

The first of US Unitarian Theodore Parker 's posthumous fourteen-volume Collected Works appeared from Trübner , with a preface by their editor, FPC .

Benjamin Jowett wrote to Cobbe to praise this book, but felt that it was too much indebted to Theodore Parker . Public respondents included her friend Francis Newman . The book was reviewed widely—at times...

In treating the need for other pursuits for spinsters and widows she touches on the topical subjects of religious sisterhoods, female doctors, higher education for women, female philanthropists such as Maria Rye , and feminist...

This final exposition gives a nice summary of FPC 's views. Authorizing herself with reference to Theodore Parker , she says: We are not the equals of men, but their equivalents. We are not their...

A letter to Parker in 1848 challenging him on his beliefs inaugurated an epistolary friendship.

During her 1860 sojourn in Italy she declined an invitation to meet George Eliot because the latter was living with a married man. Her friendship with distinguished scientist Mary Somerville blossomed during this trip, and...

Howe and her husband had a close friendship with Theodore Parker . In the preface to her collection of moral essays Is Polite Society Polite?, Howe cites him as a chief inspiration: Parker...

Her continuing studies, particularly of theology, benefitted from access to Archbishop Marsh's Library in Dublin (though it was ostensibly open only to gentlemen and graduates). Her reading at this period may have included Marian Evans, later George Eliot

She was buried, says Richard Garnett, in the cemetery which holds the remains of Mrs. Browning and Landor and Theodore Parker and so many other gifted men and women of English race. An article...