William Ellis

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Standard Name: Ellis, William,, 1794 - 1872

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death Sarah Stickney Ellis
She most likely died from catching the same illness that William had died from.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
death Sarah Stickney Ellis
SSE died one week after her husband , at Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire.
Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland, 1988.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Stickney Ellis
Sarah Stickney married author, missionary, and widower William Ellis at a small church in Burstwick in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Ellis, Sarah Stickney. The Home Life and Letters of Mrs. Ellis. J. Nisbet, 1893.
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Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Stickney Ellis
The London Missionary Society commissioned SSE 's husband, William Ellis , to travel to Madagascar, where a campaign against British Christian missionaries was producing hundreds of grisly deaths.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Ellis
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Stickney Ellis
William Ellis , born into the labouring class, was a self-educated man of high attainments. He had worked as a foreign missionary with the London Missionary Society in Tahiti and Hawaii. In 1830 he...
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Stickney Ellis
William Ellis had published Polynesian Researches in 1829, which, with his History of Madagascar, 1838, constitute early attempts at ethnography. They were significantly influenced by his role as a missionary, which was in turn...
Residence Sarah Stickney Ellis
After four years in London, SSE and husband moved to Rosehill in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, a spacious house and grounds which they rented.
Ellis, Sarah Stickney. The Home Life and Letters of Mrs. Ellis. J. Nisbet, 1893.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Features Sarah Stickney Ellis
Two years later, William Ellis began another religious publication, The Christian Keepsake and Missionary Annual, whose title was an answer to another popular gift-book, The Keepsake.
Chase, Karen, and Michael Levenson. The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family. Princeton University Press, 2000.
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Sarah Stickney contributed to it...
Textual Production Sarah Stickney Ellis
Although writing about Madagascar was understood as primarily the undertaking of SSE 's husband , she performed a great deal of the composition and editing of this work, especially when he began to suffer health...
Textual Production Sarah Stickney Ellis
Under her unmarried name, Sarah Stickney (later Ellis) , published a story called The Young Hindoo in an annual edited by her future husband .
Chase, Karen, and Michael Levenson. The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family. Princeton University Press, 2000.
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Textual Production Sarah Stickney Ellis
William Ellis planned to publish the History of Madagascar by this date; his wife and uncredited co-author SSE anticipated write, write, writing for the next four months to come.
qtd. in
Chase, Karen, and Michael Levenson. The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family. Princeton University Press, 2000.
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Timeline

1835: The accession of a new ruler in Madagascar,...

National or international item

1835

The accession of a new ruler in Madagascar, Queen Ranavalona , brought a violent campaign against the missionaries of the Methodist London Missionary Society , which had been active there since 1820.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
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Texts

Ellis, William, 1794 - 1872. History of Madagascar. Editor Ellis, Sarah Stickney, Fisher, 1838, 2 vols.
Ellis, Sarah Stickney et al. “The Young Hindoo”. The Missionary; or, Christian’s New Year’s Gift, edited by William, 1794 - 1872 Ellis, 1833.