Charpentier

16338 — Mary Carpenter : "Red Lodge Reformatory for Girls Bristol" Pamphlet Dec. 9 1904-With a portrait of Mary Carpenter inside. The pioneering Leader in Girls' Education Announcing the Fiftieth Anniversary of Red Lodge. Inside a program of events list of trustees and officers and a photograph of girls learning to sew at Red Lodge comes with a pamphlet by Manning E.A.-Associate of Mary Carpenter. Pamphle title "Moral Teaching in Schools. A Paper read at the Social Sciences Congress Brighton October 1875." Published London Edward Stanford 55 Charing Cross S.W. Stamp of "Education Department Library." 16 pages.<br/><br/>Mary Carpenter was one of the foremost public speakers of her time and is best remembered for the huge contribution she made to educational and penal reform. She opened "ragged schools" to give an education to the children of the poor and introduced reformatories which took a caring and constructive stance for young offenders. Mary Carpenter also campaigned for better education for women and reforms to prisons. Following a meeting with Frederick Douglass Mary Carpenter became fervenlyt opposed of the slave trade particularly the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. She travelled extensively in America Europe and India where she also sought reforms similar to those she pursued in Britain. She was a pioneer in the field of equality for women and stood almost alone as a female orator who was widely listened to and respected. Not all criticism was favourable however and in 1864 her books and her work were condemned by Pope Pius IX. unknown books