Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
William Ellis
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Standard Name: Ellis, William,, 1794 - 1872
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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death | Sarah Stickney Ellis | She most likely died from catching the same illness that William
had died from. |
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. 80 |
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. 117-19 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. 72-3 |
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. 71 |
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. 72 |
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.
269
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.