Anthony Ashley Cooper, seventh Earl of Shaftesbury

The volume was dedicated to the memory of the Earl of Shaftesbury . The editor of a later, undated edition, Charles Bullock , noted in his introduction that the story had gained universal commendation and...

Boons and Blessings was dedicated to the Earl of Shaftesbury and contained several previously published stories, including The Worn Thimble; a Story of Woman's Duty and Woman's Influence(1853) and The Drunkard's Bible (1854).

She wrote this poem without any direct experience of factory conditions, but at a time when she was sensitized to social injustice by learning the extent of her estranged husband's power over her, and to...

After returning home from Rome, FN remained dissatisfied with her domestic situation (which, she believed, denied her calling to serve God), and therefore immersed herself in her studies. She read statistics and government documents obtained...

During her time at Bristol, she met the elderly Hannah More , who encouraged her in her teaching project. Her interest in factory reform later brought her into contact with Lord Shaftesbury .

In London, she met theCarlyles and John Gibson Lockhart 's daughter Charlotte . She was also introduced to her future husband, Charles Eastlake . She called on Agnes Strickland and Maria Edgeworth . Lord Shaftesbury

This debilitating condition (which ran in her family) had been troubling her since 1876. She was accompanied abroad by her longtime housekeeper, Mrs Anderson, who died soon after their return. ER remained very ill and...

While the Chisholms themselves were responsible for most of the actual details of the FCLS, the society also had a Central Committee in London which included Lord Ashley and Sidney Herbert among other MPs and...

FPC became, with George Hoggan , Honorary Secretary of the new society, which they co-founded. Prominent supporters included the Earl of Shaftesbury , who became the first president, the Archbishop of York , politicians James Stansfeld

The central concern of this society was educational and industrial reform; papers presented and discussed at the VDS meetings dealt not only with every aspect of women's work but also with sundry political, social and...

Earlier in the year, the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science had appointed AP as member of a committee to consider ways of providing employment opportunities for women. It was an appointment that...

This society later became the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children or NSPCC. The meeting of twenty people included Angela Burdett-Coutts and the Earl of Shaftesbury . HS wrote the report for...

CET presented a petition on behalf of oppressed Russian Jews to Tsar Nicholas I . Signatories included many who shared her domestic reform agenda, including Lord Shaftesbury