Elizabeth Jesser Reid

Julia Smith was a close friend of the founder of Bedford College, Elizabeth Reid , and was a member of its council. BLSB focussed on art classes, and spent much of her time in the...

HM 's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to...

For nearly six years she was an invalid, though she was able to work very productively for the first few years and remained well enough to receive visitors. She was helped financially by two female...

She had a difficult journey home. Her brother James accompanied her, and several friends—Julia Smith (also an abolitionist and the aunt of Florence Nightingale ), who had been her travelling companion along with her...

ABJ delivered her lecture On Sisters of Charity Abroad and at Home at the house of Elizabeth Reid in London; it was published later the same year.

ABJ delivered a lecture, published later that year, on The Communion of Labour, at the London home of Elizabeth Reid .

Soon after establishing herself at Ambleside, in her second course of lectures there (presumably around 1849), HM instructed the working people in the principles of a Building Society, so that they would be enabled to...