Grace Darling

Jessica , the sister who followed Unity in age, eloped in her teens with a still younger cousin who was off to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Nancy and her husband were despatched as...

Continuing her activity in the public sphere, CS founded the Grace Darling League , which she designed to run for five years, until 8 September 1938: that is, until the day after the centenary of...

CS published a biographical study, Grace Darling and her Times, whose protagonist was famous as an ordinary woman capable at need of both physical strength and moral heroism.

CS 's next book, covering much the same ground as her previous one but this time for younger readers, was Grace Darling and her Islands, published with the Religious Tract Society .

In her introduction, Carey expresses her wish that her sketches of twelve noble and useful lives be read and studied by women of this generation, and go and do thou likewise be written upon some...

The early part of the work summarizing the legal position of women reads much like Barbara Leigh Smith 's A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women, published the...