1877réf. 163421877. Carpenter Mary autograph letter signed dated January 10 1877 documents Carpenter's support for women's participation in school governance during the final months of her life providing direct evidence of her work across women's education juvenile reform prison reform and public advocacy. Carpenter founded ragged schools and reformatories for poor children and young offenders in Bristol advocated for women's education engaged anti-slavery work and traveled to India where she examined schools prisons and female education. Carpenter Mary. Autograph Letter Signed to Alderman Mansfield. Bristol: Mary Carpenter 1877. January 10 1877. 1 page. Original mailing envelope and two obituaries of Carpenter are pasted into the volume. The letter congratulates Mansfield on the election of his wife to the School Board stating "Thanks for sending us the paper containing the very gratifying announcement of the election of Mrs. Mansfield.It is a grand triumph!" A note at the bottom signed M. P. Mansfield explains "This letter was written on the receipt of a paper containing the account of the election of my wife to the School Board." Written months before Carpenter's death in June 1877 the letter links her educational reform career to the expanding civic role of women in nineteenth-century Britain. A biography materially strengthened by Carpenter's own signed letter joining printed memorialization with direct manuscript presence from a major woman reformer. Condition not stated in the supplied description. Strong association copy documenting Carpenter's support for women's public educational authority. unknown
1879réf. 163401879. Carpenter J. Estlin The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter 1879 preserves the career of Mary Carpenter as a central figure in Victorian educational and penal reform with an inserted autograph letter signed by Carpenter adding manuscript evidence to a biography concerned with women's public authority juvenile justice prison reform abolition and female education. Carpenter founded ragged schools and reformatories for poor children and young offenders in Bristol advocated for women's education engaged anti-slavery work and traveled to India where she examined schools prisons and female education. Carpenter J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. London: Macmillan and Co. 1879. First edition. 1 volume. 495 pages. Portrait of Mary Carpenter facing title page. Bound in green leather with marbled boards with autograph letter signed by Mary Carpenter pasted in. The biography traces Carpenter's reform work across education juvenile reformatory practice prison conditions women's public speech and international reform networks placing her among the few nineteenth-century women whose authority extended into penal policy and public institutional criticism. Carpenter's reform career intersected with major mid-nineteenth-century debates over poverty juvenile delinquency women's education abolition and imperial reform. Her work on reformatory schools contributed to broader legislative and philanthropic discussions about whether young offenders should be punished or educated and her later visits to India expanded her reform agenda into female education and prison conditions under British colonial rule. Light foxing to free endpapers and title page with minimal shelfwear; good. A biography materially strengthened by Carpenter's own signed letter joining printed memorialization with direct manuscript presence from a major woman reformer. unknown
1879réf. 163401879. Carpenter J. Estlin The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter 1879 preserves the career of Mary Carpenter as a central figure in Victorian educational and penal reform with an inserted autograph letter signed by Carpenter adding manuscript evidence to a biography concerned with women's public authority juvenile justice prison reform abolition and female education. Carpenter founded ragged schools and reformatories for poor children and young offenders in Bristol advocated for women's education engaged anti-slavery work and traveled to India where she examined schools prisons and female education. Carpenter J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. London: Macmillan and Co. 1879. First edition. 1 volume. 495 pages. Portrait of Mary Carpenter facing title page. Bound in green leather with marbled boards with autograph letter signed by Mary Carpenter pasted in. The biography traces Carpenter's reform work across education juvenile reformatory practice prison conditions women's public speech and international reform networks placing her among the few nineteenth-century women whose authority extended into penal policy and public institutional criticism. Carpenter's reform career intersected with major mid-nineteenth-century debates over poverty juvenile delinquency women's education abolition and imperial reform. Her work on reformatory schools contributed to broader legislative and philanthropic discussions about whether young offenders should be punished or educated and her later visits to India expanded her reform agenda into female education and prison conditions under British colonial rule. Light foxing to free endpapers and title page with minimal shelfwear; good. A biography materially strengthened by Carpenter's own signed letter joining printed memorialization with direct manuscript presence from a major woman reformer. unknown books
1875réf. 163391875. Carpenter Mary. Red Lodge Girls' Reformatory School Bristol 1875 records Carpenter's methods for the education and rehabilitation of girls committed to the Bristol reformatory she established as part of her wider campaign for juvenile penal reform. Carpenter argued that reform depended upon securing each girl's active participation rather than relying on punishment alone: "The will of each individual girl must be enlisted in her own reformation and she should be led to feel that without this the efforts of teachers will be useless. Such confidence must be awakened in the minds of the children toward their teachers." The volume documents an approach that combined discipline with education personal responsibility and sustained relationships between teachers and pupils principles central to Carpenter's work with poor and juvenile offending children. Carpenter Mary. Red Lodge Girls' Reformatory School Bristol. 1875. First edition. Signed "with Miss Carpenter's Complements." Original brown boards with gilt title. Illustrated with an engraving of the school. This slim history describes Carpenter's work at Red Lodge and the institution's mission placing the school within her broader efforts to replace exclusively punitive treatment of young offenders with education and reform. Carpenter also established ragged schools for poor children advocated prison reform and expanded educational opportunities for women and carried her interest in educational and penal reform to Britain India Europe and the United States. Carpenter's writing on Red Lodge provides direct evidence of the educational principles applied to girls within the nineteenth-century reformatory movement particularly her insistence that institutional discipline required the cooperation and confidence of the child herself. The free front endpaper and engraving of the school are separated. A tear to the spine exposes the pages beneath; textblock clean. Overall Good Condition. unknown books
réf. 16337Carpenter Mary. Signed carte de visite portrait circa mid-1860s records the English educational and social reformer during the period in which her work on ragged schools reformatories prison conditions and female education had made her a prominent public advocate for institutional reform. Carpenter devoted much of her career to expanding educational opportunities for poor children and young offenders and argued that reformatory institutions should foster discipline education and personal improvement rather than rely solely on punishment. She was also active in anti-slavery work and later carried her educational and penal reform interests to India where she promoted female education reformatory schooling and prison reform. Albumen carte de visite photograph by T. R. Williams of London circa mid-1860s. A slip of paper bearing Carpenter's name in ink has been pasted across the lower margin of the mount. The portrait dates from a period when Carpenter was widely engaged in public speaking and reform work in Britain and abroad and the signed identification connects the image directly to the sitter rather than relying solely on later attribution. Carpenter's portrait belongs to the visual record of nineteenth-century women reformers whose public authority was built through lectures publications institutional work and transnational advocacy. Her campaigns linked educational access juvenile reform prison conditions women's education and anti-slavery activism across Britain and India. Condition not stated in the supplied description. unknown books
1904réf. 163381904. Two pamphlets concerning the educational and reformatory work associated with Mary Carpenter document the institutional methods developed for juvenile reform in nineteenth-century Britain and their continuation after Carpenter's death. Carpenter established a ragged school at Lewin's Mead Bristol in 1846 and opened the Red Lodge Reformatory for Girls with the support of Lady Byron in 1854 advocating education and rehabilitation in place of purely punitive treatment for juvenile offenders. The earlier pamphlet records a lecture on moral teaching delivered by Carpenter's associate E. A. Manning while the second commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Red Lodge with its program officers Carpenter's portrait and a photograph showing girls receiving instruction in sewing. Two pamphlets 1875 and 1904 relating to educational reform and Red Lodge Reformatory for Girls in Bristol. The 1875 pamphlet comprises 16 pages and prints E. A. Manning's lecture before the Social Science Congress on moral teaching in schools. The 1904 Red Lodge publication commemorates fifty years of the girls' reformatory and includes a portrait of Carpenter a program of anniversary events lists of trustees and officers and a photograph of girls learning to sew. The photograph records the industrial training incorporated into the institution's educational program where needlework formed part of the preparation of girls for employment after leaving the reformatory. 1 Manning E. A. Moral Teaching in Our Schools. 1875. 16 pages. Lecture delivered before the Social Science Congress by an associate of Mary Carpenter. Manning addresses moral instruction within schools during the period in which Carpenter and other reformers were pressing for educational methods intended to alter the treatment of poor neglected and juvenile offending children. The pamphlet records the intellectual arguments accompanying the development of reform schools as educational institutions rather than places organized solely around punishment. 2 Red Lodge Reformatory for Girls Bristol. Bristol December 9 1904. Fiftieth-anniversary pamphlet commemorating the institution Carpenter and Lady Byron established in 1854. Includes a portrait of Mary Carpenter a program of events lists of trustees and officers and a photograph showing girls learning to sew at Red Lodge. Produced nearly three decades after Carpenter's death the pamphlet documents the personnel commemorative culture and vocational instruction of an institution that continued the educational and penal reforms she had advocated. Very Good Condition. The two publications span nearly thirty years of discussion and practice surrounding moral education and girls' reformatory schooling connecting Carpenter's nineteenth-century reform program with the institutional life of Red Lodge at its fiftieth anniversary. unknown books
1877réf. 163421877. Carpenter Mary autograph letter signed dated January 10 1877 documents Carpenter's support for women's participation in school governance during the final months of her life providing direct evidence of her work across women's education juvenile reform prison reform and public advocacy. Carpenter founded ragged schools and reformatories for poor children and young offenders in Bristol advocated for women's education engaged anti-slavery work and traveled to India where she examined schools prisons and female education. Carpenter Mary. Autograph Letter Signed to Alderman Mansfield. Bristol: Mary Carpenter 1877. January 10 1877. 1 page. Original mailing envelope and two obituaries of Carpenter are pasted into the volume. The letter congratulates Mansfield on the election of his wife to the School Board stating "Thanks for sending us the paper containing the very gratifying announcement of the election of Mrs. Mansfield.It is a grand triumph!" A note at the bottom signed M. P. Mansfield explains "This letter was written on the receipt of a paper containing the account of the election of my wife to the School Board." Written months before Carpenter's death in June 1877 the letter links her educational reform career to the expanding civic role of women in nineteenth-century Britain. A biography materially strengthened by Carpenter's own signed letter joining printed memorialization with direct manuscript presence from a major woman reformer. Condition not stated in the supplied description. Strong association copy documenting Carpenter's support for women's public educational authority. unknown books
2005réf. 1-0634080806Hal Leonard Corp 2005. Paperback. New. 112 pages. 11.75x8.75x0.25 inches. Hal Leonard Corp paperback
1984réf. Q-0396083382Dodd Mead 1984-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Dodd, Mead paperback
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2025réf. BIBHB0062910472025. Hardcover. New. About The Book: ""Girl's Winter in India"" by Mary Thorn Carpenter 1807�1877 is a travel memoir detailing her experiences during a winter spent in India. Written from a personal perspective the book offers vivid descriptions of Indian landscapes culture and colonial society through the eyes of a Western woman traveler. Carpenter�s observations provide insight into 19th-century India colonial dynamics and the daily life of British expatriates. Her narrative combines curiosity cultural reflection and detailed accounts making it a valuable record of historical travel literature. About The Author: Mary Thorn Carpenter 1807�1877 was a British writer and traveler known for her work Girl's Winter in India. Her writings offer insightful observations of 19th-century Indian society and British colonial life. She combined travel narrative with cultural commentary contributing to early women's travel literature in the Victorian era. The Title 'Girl's winter in India written/authored/edited by Mary Thorn Carpenter' published in the year 2025. The ISBN 9789371698375 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 288 Pages. The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol: hardcover
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réf. ria9780807857274_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Carpenter discusses apocalytptic narrative schemes in Romola Adam Bede Middlemarch Daniel Deronda and The Legend of Jubal. In the context of nineteenth-century British interpretation of the prophesies this study reveals an unsuspec paperback
réf. A9780807857274Paperback / softback. New. Discusses apocalytptic narrative schemes in Romola Adam Bede Middlemarch Daniel Deronda and The Legend of Jubal. In the context of nineteenth-century British interpretation of the prophesies this study reveals an unsuspected visionary poetics in Eliot's writings and demonstrates that her later works rewrite Protestant apocalyptics in both romantic and satiric styles. paperback
1987réf. 19472new hc The University Of North Carolina Press hardcover
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1986réf. x-0807857270University of North Carolina Press Enduring Editions 1986. Paperback. New. 260 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.66 inches. University of North Carolina Press Enduring Editions paperback
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réf. A9780275989521Hardback. New. This work offers a social and cultural history of Victorian medicine "from below" as experienced by ordinary practitioners and patients often described in their own words. Health Medicine and Society in Victorian England is a human story of medicine in 19th-century England. hardcover
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