Another formative event for MC
was becoming acquainted in 1833 with the Rajah Rammohun Roy
(a religious thinker who aimed to modernize the Hindu religion, changing it from polytheism to monotheism), who filled her with...
Friends, Associates
Mary Carpenter
Both Rammohun Roy
and Joseph Tuckerman
exerted significant influence on her, and she wrote a memoir of each after his death.
MC
commemorated another friend and fellow activist with a biography: The Last Days in England of the Rajah Rammohun Roy, published by Trübner and Co.
at both London and Calcutta.
Carpenter, J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. 2nd ed., MacMillan and Co., 1881.
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Mary Carpenter
Tuckerman (1778 - 20 April 1840) was a Unitarian minister whose work among Boston's poorest earned him the title of the father of American social work. A lifelong friend of William Ellery Channing
, he...