William Wilberforce

Watts and her maid were two of the original subscribers to the Leicester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society , formed this same month. When William Wilberforce expressed disapproval of ladies' anti-slavery societies, which he said were...

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...

Twenty-two of the poems are the sister's, thirty-eight the brother's, and three are written by Eliza, a sister-in-law. An Advertisement gallantly suggests that the lady outshines the gentleman. EST 's verse introduction confesses her early...

Meeting the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry , MMS discussed with her the danger of celebrity, for females especially, and their respective temptations. She also enjoyed a meeting with William Wilberforce , and later another...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World was praised in letters by many of HM 's friends and associates.Walpole wrote: It is prettily written, but her enthusiasm increases. It...

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...

These collections supply parts of HM 's correspondence with Matthew Arnold , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Welsh Carlyle , John Chapman , Maria Weston Chapman , Anne Jemima Clough , Samuel Courtauld , Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marguerite Blessington moved from Mayfair to the spacious and elegant Gore House at Kensington (then outside London); the house had the additional advantages of being quieter and more healthful.

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...

Knight had married a white fellow-servant and needed to be free from his master (a man of some eminence who bitterly opposed letting him go) so that he could earn money. This interesting case, lasting...

She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation...