FPC
's time at Red Lodge House brought her into contact with other reformers, feminists, and abolitionists from Britain and the USA, including Sarah Parker Remond
, and Samuel May
. After the execution of...
Occupation
Mary Carpenter
This time MC
participated in the discussion, reading some papers along with reformist lawyer M. D. Hill
after publishing several letters in local newspapers before the conference. The argument was that all children, even those...
Reception
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Matthew Davenport Hill
(a lawyer, member of parliament, and friend of BLSB
, who had also advised in her composition of the pamphlet), brought it to the attention of the Law Amendment Society
and they...
Textual Features
Caroline Frances Cornwallis
On the Principles of Criminal Law was topical: next year, 1847, Matthew Davenport Hill
published Draft Report on the Principles of Punishment: presented to the Committee on Criminal Law appointed by the Law Amendment Society...
Timeline
February 1856: Matthew Davenport Hill distributed Barbara...