Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton, 1854.
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Education | George Eliot | Her devotion to John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress remained unchanged during this period. She also read heavyweight works of theology, Hannah More
's letters, and a life of William Wilberforce
. By late 1838, however... |
Education | J. K. Rowling | At just five Joanne Rowling first went to school: to St Michael's Church of England School in Winterbourne, which had been founded in 1813 in response to a plea by William Wilberforce
. In... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Brontë | Patrick Brontë
was an Irish protestant from a large respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Kingsley | Grenfell was also an established politician. From 14 December 1802 (before Fanny's birth) to 29 February 1820 he served as the MP for Great Marlow, and from 21 April 1820 to 2 June 1826 he... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Lady Pennington | Their eldest son, John
, was born at Bath and baptised in Bath Abbey on 22 May 1741. After two years at Winchester College
he joined the army at about fifteen. He resigned his commission... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Bird | IB
's great-grandfather Sir George Merttins
was Lord Mayor of London. William Wilberforce
, a leader in the fight against slavery, was her father's second cousin. Two of her male relatives became Bishops in the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Brontë | Patrick Brontë
was an Irish protestant from a large, respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became... |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Her later friendships often blended the personal with the political, like those with Beilby Porteus
(Bishop of London from 1787, where she met him) and the abolitionists William Wilberforce
(met at Bath the same year)... |
Friends, Associates | Susanna Watts | In her own more local circle, however, SW
was relaxed and good company. She belonged to a Book Society
. She was a close friend of the Hutton and the Coltman families and especially, in... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Martha Sherwood | Meeting the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry
, MMS
discussed with her the danger of celebrity, for females especially, and their respective temptations. Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton, 1854. 537 |
Instructor | Harriet Martineau | Perry had lost most of his male pupils when he converted to Unitarianism. Though the room and curriculum were shared, the boys and girls were separated and unable to see or communicate with one another... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World was praised in letters by many of HM
's friends and associates. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952. 112 Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols. 14: 385 |
Literary responses | Olaudah Equiano | This book was an immediate success in Britain, and in the USA it significantly influenced the emancipation movement. Equiano, Olaudah. “Introduction, etc”. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, edited by Angelo Costanzo, Peterborough, ON, 2001, pp. 7-37. 11, 7 |
Occupation | Hannah More | On visits around the Wrington district the More sisters had been horrified by the squalor, want, and ignorance in which the rural poor were living. They felt that knowledge (especially religious knowledge) was the first... |
politics | Susanna Watts | Watts and her maid were two of the original subscribers to the Leicester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society
, formed this same month. Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott, 2004. 30 |
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