Marianne Thornton

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Marianne Thornton (* 1797 , † 1887 ) was an English civil rights activist who campaigned for the abolition of slavery.

Marianne Thornton was the oldest of nine children of the English philanthropist, economist and abolitionist Henry Thornton (1760-1815) and his wife Marianne Sykes († 1815). The father belonged next to William Wilberforce to the Clapham Saints , an influential group of members of the Church of England . After the early death of their parents, she and her siblings grew up with the politician Sir Robert Inglis , a friend of the family. She spent most of her long life in Clapham and was one of the blue stockings .

Marianne Thornton was the head of the Thornton family. She was the great-aunt of EM Forster , to whom she bequeathed £ 8,000 as a bequest in Trust after her death . Forster published a detailed biography about her in 1956. The publication of Forster made it known nationwide.

Her parents became people in the feature film Amazing Grace (German film title: The man who changed the world ). This refers to the poem of the same name by the former slave trader and founder of the Clapham Saints John Newton .

Web links

  • Peter Childs: Marianne Thornton. In: The Literary Encyclopedia. January 8, 2001. Accessed December 21, 2018.
  • Leslie Stephen: Thornton, Henry. In: Dictionary of National Biography. 1885-1900, Volume 56, pp. 301-303. ( online en: Wikisource )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ After converting historical currency amounts into current purchasing power, this amount corresponds to around £ 869,000 today.
  2. ^ A Chronology of Forster's life and work . Cambridge.org. December 1, 1953. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
  3. ^ EM Forster: Marianne Thornton, 1797-1887. A Domestic Biography. Arnold, London 1956
personal data
SURNAME Thornton, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English civil rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1797
DATE OF DEATH 1887