MC
's father, Lant Carpenter
died in mysterious circumstances at sea, going overboard from a ship off the coast of Europe. Her friend Joseph Tuckerman
also died within a couple of weeks of this event.
Carpenter, J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. 2nd ed., MacMillan and Co., 1881.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Carpenter
MC
's father, Lant Carpenter
, was born on 2 September 1780 to Mary née Hooke
and her husband, carpet manufacturer George Carpenter
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Lant Carpenter
His father left the family after his business...
Instructor
Harriet Martineau
HM
spent a happy fifteen months at a girls' school in Bristol run by her beloved aunt Mrs Robert Rankin
; while here she also became devoted to Unitarian minister and religious teacher the Rev....
Occupation
Mary Carpenter
The Domestic Mission was apparently the brainchild of her father
, but MC
says in a later letter that he was not one whose forte lay in collecting around him those outcasts of society; he...
Textual Features
Mary Carpenter
The volume included material by other people: a biographical sketch of Rammohun Roy by MC
's late father, Lant Carpenter
; her brother Russell
's memoir of their father; and funeral sermons for Rammohun Roy by several hands.