Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

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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 Monica Furlong
MF edited for the SPCK a collection of essays about the ordination of women, entitled Feminine in the Church.
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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 Selina Bunbury
SB also wrote for the Religious Tract Society and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , and she contributed to the Christian Examiner and Cornhill Magazine. Much of this writing was anonymous. She penned...
Textual Production Monica Furlong
MF published through the SPCK a historical, doctrinal, political, and analytical study of the Church of England (the established church of most of the UK), which she titled by the church's colloquial name: C 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 Elizabeth Charles
During her last decade or so, EC published no fewer than sixteen religious works with the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Textual Production Agnes Giberne
AG began to write early, as did her sisters. She was said to have been publishing children's stories with the SPCK (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ) by the age of seventeen (that is...
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 Agnes Giberne
Other books that she produced in the same vein include Among the Stars; or, Wonderful Things in the Sky, late 1884 (dated 1885), The Ocean of Air. Meteorology for Beginners (again with an introduction...
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.
Textual Production Elizabeth Charles
EC 's "By The Mystery of Thy Holy Incarnation" was published in 1890 by the SPCK .
Textual Production Annie Keary
An 88-page selection of AK 's letters was posthumously published for the SPCK by her sister Eliza Keary .
The book is dated from the Bodleian Library 's 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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Textual Production Wendy Cope
She has followed that with a collection for children, The Orchard Book of Funny Poems (illustrated by Amanda Vesey ), 1993, and with three anthologies published by Faber and Faber :The Funny Side: 101...

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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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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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...

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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.