Another formative event for MC
was becoming acquainted in 1833 with the Rajah Rammohun Roy
(a religious thinker who aimed to modernize the Hindu religion, changing it from polytheism to monotheism), who filled her with...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Carpenter
MC
's father, Lant Carpenter
died in mysterious circumstances at sea, going overboard from a ship off the coast of Europe. Her friend Joseph Tuckerman
also died within a couple of weeks of this event.
Carpenter, J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. 2nd ed., MacMillan and Co., 1881.
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Friends, Associates
Mary Carpenter
Both Rammohun Roy
and Joseph Tuckerman
exerted significant influence on her, and she wrote a memoir of each after his death.
Health
Mary Carpenter
In the years 1834 and 1835, several of MC
's friends and relatives died within quick succession, and she herself fell into a deep depression that continued, in varying degrees of severity, for the next...
Occupation
Mary Carpenter
MC
engaged in her first act of philanthropy by establishing the Working and Visiting Society
, centred around the slums of Lewin's Mead in Bristol, which was inspired by Tuckerman
's work of a...
Textual Features
Mary Carpenter
MC
here investigates the causes of juvenile crime, and the home conditions and the parents (thieves, vagabonds, drunks) that turn young people into criminals. She gives space specifically to girls as well s to boys...
Textual Production
Mary Carpenter
MC
published for the Christian Tract Society
her Memoir of Joseph Tuckerman
, D.D., of Boston (U.S.); it was quickly reprinted in the USA.
Carpenter, J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. 2nd ed., MacMillan and Co., 1881.