Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Connections
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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)... |
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... |
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
. |
Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | The school was run by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
. She remained there teaching history and literature until 1910. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995. 24 |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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 | 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... |
Publishing | Emma Marshall | This was one of the shorter fictions which EM
published with James Nisbet and Co.
She issued others of the same type with the SPCK
, while Seeley
continued to publish her longer books. Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900. 90 |
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... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Charles | Among EC
's later works was Songs Old and New (1887), a collection of poems. British Library Catalogue. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908. |
Publishing | Mary Linskill | |
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... |
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... |
Timeline
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
founded a High School for Girls
at St Martin in the Fields, London.
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
(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 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
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 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 of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church
was founded by the Church of England
. It still exists, known as The National Society (Church of England) for Promoting Religious Education
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
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
published The Ministry of Women, a report on women's ministry in the Church of England
over the last seventy years.