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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Mary Carpenter
MC
engaged in her first act of philanthropy by establishing the
Working and Visiting Society
, centred around the slums of
Lewin's Mead in Bristol
, which was inspired by
Tuckerman
's work of a...
Occupation
Mary Carpenter
MC
helped to establish the
Domestic Mission
in
Bristol
, a society that was intended to aid the poor in a similar way to the
Working and Visiting Society
.
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Carpenter, J. Estlin.
The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter
. 2nd ed., MacMillan and Co., 1881.
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