Reformatory Schools : For the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes, and for Juvenile Offenders /

Daughter of a Unitarian minister and schoolmaster, the penal reformer and educationist Mary Carpenter (1807-77) grew up in a pious family with a strong sense of obligation to those who were less fortunate. Moved by the appalling circumstances of destitute children in Bristol, she established her fir...

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Main Author: Carpenter, Mary, 1807-1877 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Place of publication not identified : publisher not identified, 1851.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Series:Cambridge library collection. British and Irish history, 19th century.
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