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Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Stickney Ellis | The London Missionary Society
commissioned SSE
's husband, William Ellis
, to travel to Madagascar, where a campaign against British Christian missionaries was producing hundreds of grisly deaths. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Ellis |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Stickney Ellis | William Ellis
, born into the labouring class, was a self-educated man of high attainments. He had worked as a foreign missionary with the London Missionary Society
in Tahiti and Hawaii. In 1830 he... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Lamb | Mary referred to her work as poor little baby-stories, in the context of her own inability (she said in a letter) to write about anything else except her current work. Lamb, Charles, 1775 - 1834, and Mary, 1764 - 1847 Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Editor Marrs, Edwin J., Jr, Cornell University Press, 1975, 3 vols. 2: 229 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Montefiore | The novel's two main characters, Reuben Simeon and Caleb Ascher, are the eldest sons of their respective families, and as such are responsible for providing for the members of their household. Before the novel opens... |
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