Anne Knight

Standard Name: Knight, Anne

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Helen Waddell
HW 's sister preserved all her letters, and a chaotic mass of other manuscript material. Meg would have burned these if Monica Blackett had not wished to use them in her biography.
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable, 1973.
9-10
HW 's...
Textual Production Ann Taylor Gilbert
ATG wrote to Anne Knight expressing opposition to women's suffrage.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
2: 185-8

Timeline

1 August 1834: The Slavery Abolition Act or Emancipation...

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1 August 1834

The Slavery Abolition Act or Emancipation Bill came into effect in the British Empire.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.
1137
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
355
Williams, Helen Maria. A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade. T. Cadell, 1788, http://BL.
175
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
657
Halbersleben, Karen I. Women’s Participation in the British Antislavery Movement, 1824-1865. Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.
202-9
Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Croom Helm, 1986, pp. 41-67.
48

14 November 1834: George Stephen told Anne Knight that women,...

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14 November 1834

George Stephen told Anne Knight that women, banded together in Ladies' Societies, deserved most credit for the recent Abolition Act.
Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Croom Helm, 1986, pp. 41-67.
48-50 and n68

June 1840: American women were refused entry as delegates...

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June 1840

American women were refused entry as delegates to the first World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
1
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
210
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
31
Davidson, Cathy N., and Linda Wagner-Martin, editors. The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States. Oxford University Press, 1995.
3
Halbersleben, Karen I. Women’s Participation in the British Antislavery Movement, 1824-1865. Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.
199
Halbersleben, Karen I. Women’s Participation in the British Antislavery Movement, 1824-1865. Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.
199-200
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.

May 1852: The National Woman's Rights Association was...

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May 1852

The National Woman's Rights Association was established.
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
248, 254

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