Mary Merryweather

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Standard Name: Merryweather, Mary

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Bessie Rayner Parkes
In later years she became friendly with hymn-writer Elizabeth Rundle Charles .
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941.
338
One of her closest non-literary friends was Mary Merryweather , a Quaker nurse who shared BRP 's interest in promoting standards of...
Friends, Associates Bessie Rayner Parkes
While prostrated by grief she relied heavily on friends like Mary Merryweather , Dean Stanley of Westminster Abbey and his wife Lady Augusta Stanley , and Elizabeth Charles .
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941.
243, 340-1
Health Bessie Rayner Parkes
BRP contracted scarlet fever while staying with Mary Merryweather in Liverpool. She would probably have died without the skilled care of Merryweather, an expert in nursing, who put everything aside to nurse her friend...
names Marie Belloc Lowndes
  • BirthName: Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Renée Julia Belloc
    Her many names were given in honour of various relatives and of her mother's friends Mary Merryweather and Adelaide Procter .
    Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941.
    87

  • Nickname: Mary
    Her English relations and...
Textual Production Bessie Rayner Parkes
In 1862 BRP wrote a lengthy introduction to the third edition of her friend Mary Merryweather 's Experience of Factory Life, in which she stresses the need for the education and moralization
Parkes, Bessie Rayner, and Mary Merryweather. “Introduction”. Experience of Factory Life, 3rd ed., E. Faithfull, 1862.
xix
of factory workers.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Emily Faithfull
EF also published Mary Merryweather 's Experience of Factory Life.
Fredeman, William E. “Emily Faithfull and the Victoria Press: An Experiment in Sociological Bibliography”. The Library, Vol.
29
, No. 2, –June 1974, pp. 139-64.
162
As a publisher she produced a high proportion of texts by female authors, including Frances Power Cobbe , Sarah Stickney Ellis , Louisa Twining

Timeline

8 June 1847: A Factory Act, also known as The Ten Hours...

Building item

8 June 1847

A Factory Act, also known as The Ten Hours Act, restricted the length of British women's and teenagers' working day in textile factories to ten hours.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.
164-5
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
269
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
179
Zlotnick, Susan. Women, Writing, and the Industrial Revolution. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
209-10
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Sweet, Matthew. Inventing the Victorians. St Martin’s Press, 2001.
3

1862: Mary Merryweather published her popular autobiography...

Women writers item

1862

Mary Merryweather published her popular autobiography Experience of Factory Life: Being a Record of Fourteen Years' Work at Mr. Courtauld's Silk Mill at Halstead, in Essex.
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Texts

Parkes, Bessie Rayner, and Mary Merryweather. “Introduction”. Experience of Factory Life, 3rd ed., E. Faithfull, 1862.