C. E. Plumptre

12 February 1848 - 12 March 1929

CEP wrote during the later nineteenth century on religious and philosophical issues. She authored five books and many periodical essays. She was especially interested in Pantheist philosophers, deliberately seeking out and championing persecuted and obscure thinkers of the past such as Giordano Bruno and Lucilio Vanini .

Milestones

12 February 1848

Constance (who later wrote as C. E.) Plumptre was christened at a church called St James Norlands in St James Gardens, Notting Hill, London. Constance was just the first of her four given names.

The Feminist Companion wrongly gives her birth-date as 1847.

“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

1878

CEP anonymously published the first volume in a two-volume series of philosophical thoughts: General Sketch of the History of Pantheism.

Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

Plumptre, C. E. General Sketch of the History of Pantheism. Trübner.

prelims

December 1902

CEP 's final publication, her essay On the Neglected Centenary of Harriet Martineau, appeared in the Westminster Review.

Plumptre, C. E. “On the Neglected Centenary of Harriet Martineau”. Westminster Review, Vol.

158

, pp. 669-78.

By 12 March 1929

CEP died, aged nearly eighty.

Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

Biography

Birth and Family

12 February 1848

Constance (who later wrote as C. E.) Plumptre was christened at a church called St James Norlands in St James Gardens, Notting Hill, London. Constance was just the first of her four given names.

The Feminist Companion wrongly gives her birth-date as 1847.

“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.