Isabella Varley (later IB
) joined the Mechanics' Institute
in Cooper Street, Manchester, to take advantage of its library, lectures, and exhibitions.
Burney, Edward Lester. Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. E. J. Morten, 1969.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Gaskell
Having remarked before marrying that she would need to learn obedience,
qtd. in
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
77
EG
refused to be known as Mrs William Gaskell: she signed herself throughout her life as Elizabeth Gaskell
.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
77
In addition...
Family and Intimate relationships
Anna Wickham
In Maryborough, AW
's mother relieved their poverty by giving elocution lessons to children at the Mechanics' Institute
. Her lessons became quite successful, and she was hired by the Queensland Education Department
as...
Friends, Associates
James Malcolm Rymer
The publication dates of Adeline; or, The Grave of the Forsaken in 1841 and Vileroy in 1841/42 (if the attribution is correct) suggest that JMR
and Lloyd
may have met before this at the Mechanics' Institute
Occupation
Josephine Butler
She began her tour with a lecture delivered to the Mechanics' Institute
in Crewe. She continued her travels throughout Northern England and in one year addressed 99 meetings and four conferences and travelled 3,700...
politics
Isabella Banks
In late 1838 (the year that she had both opened her own school and joined the ManchesterMechanics' Institute
in order to keep pursuing her own education), the seventeen-year-old Isabella Varley became a founding member...