Prince, Mary, and Ziggi Alexander. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Ferguson, MoiraEditor , Pandora, 1987.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Susanna Moodie | In her late twenties, Susanna met Thomas Pringle
, Methodist
secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society
in England, who influenced her involvement with the abolitionist movement and her decision to join a Nonconformist congregation near Reydon... |
Employer | Mary Prince | MP
went to work for the family of Thomas Pringle
, secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society
. Prince, Mary, and Ziggi Alexander. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Ferguson, MoiraEditor , Pandora, 1987. 89 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Moodie | Susanna Strickland
met her future husband, John Moodie
, through a friend, poet-cum-literary-agent Thomas Pringle
. Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999. 27, 34 The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995. Thurston, John. “‘The Casket of Truth’: The Social Significance of Susanna Moodie’s Spiritual Dilemmas”. Canadian Poetry. 5 |
Literary responses | Mary Prince | On the one hand the re-issues indicate that MP
's book was popular; on the other hand a rash of virulent attacks, both published and through the law-courts, shows that it had hit powerful economic... |
Publishing | Sarah Stickney Ellis | After this and a few other poorly selling ventures in privately printed material, SSE
followed the advice of a friend and contacted the publisher Thomas Pringle
, secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society
, who offered... |
Reception | Mary Prince | The aftermath dragged on. Thomas Pringle
of the Anti-Slavery Society
, who had published MP
's work, sued Thomas Cadell
, London publisher of Blackwood's; the man who claimed ownership of MP
sued Pringle for libel. |
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