He belonged to the Somerset branch of a long-lasting Quaker family whose members elsewhere called themselves Sturge. Joseph Sturge
was a...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Heyrick
Historian Kenneth Corfield
suggests that although EH
was later credited with influencing her fellow-abolitionists towards a more urgent and combative stance, and although she may have exercised real influence on a few individuals, such as...
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1845: Quaker Joseph Sturge founded a school for...
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1845
Quaker Joseph Sturge
founded a school for adult education.
Roach, John. Social Reform in England 1780-1880. St Martin’s Press, 1978.