Mary Carpenter (educator)

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Mary Carpenter (born April 3, 1807 in Exeter ; died June 14, 1877 in Bristol ) was an English educational and social reformer. As the daughter of a Unitarian pastor, she founded a "rag school" and educational institution, giving underprivileged children and young offenders in Bristol access to education and rehabilitation.

Works (selection)

  • Morning and Evening Meditations, for Every Day in a Month . Boston: Wm. Crosby & HP Nichols, 1848
  • Memoir of Joseph Tuckerman, DD, of Boston (US) . London: Christian Tract Society, 1849
  • Reformatory Schools: For the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes and for Juvenile Offenders . London: C. Gilpin, 1851
  • Juvenile Delinquents, their Condition and Treatment . London: W. & FG Cash, 1853
  • Reformatories for Convicted Girls . Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, pp. 338-346, 1860
  • Six Months in India . London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1868
  • Female Life in Prison with Robinson, Frederick William. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1862
  • Our convicts . London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864
  • The Last Days in England of the Rajah Rammohun Roy . London: Trubner and Co, 1866
  • Reformatory Prison Discipline: As Developed by the Rt. Hon. Sir Walter Crofton, in the Irish Convict Prisons with Crofton, William. London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1872
  • Memoir of the Rev. Lant Carpenter, LL.D. with Russell Lant Carpenter. London: ET Whitfield, 1875
  • An address on prison discipline and juvenile reformatories . W. Jones, 1876

literature

  • Carpenter, Mary , in: Jenny Uglow , Maggy Hendry: Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography . London: Macmillan, 1999 (3rd edition), ISBN 0333725735 , p. 107

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personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British educator and social reformer
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Exeter , UK
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1877
Place of death Bristol , UK