Thomas Shore

Her father, Thomas Shore , was an Oxford-taught clergyman whose scruples about the Thirty-Nine Articles led him to refuse preferment within the Church. He wrote a number of historical and theological works, including a pamphlet...

Her father, Thomas Shore , received his education at Oxford and was a Church of England clergyman until his reservations about the Thirty-Nine Articles led him to redirect his energies to private tutoring. He educated...

Her father, the Oxford-educated Thomas Shore , was in his twenties when MES was born. A clergyman who had refused preferment within the Church because he did not wish to subscribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles...

MES and her siblings were educated entirely at home. Emily's parents were her first teachers. The introduction to her Journal says: She made her whole existence a happy schoolroom. Besides the father 's lessons so...