Name/TitleNoble Workers
MakerChappell, Jennie
Maker RoleAuthor
About this objectHardback book with red covers titled 'Noble Workers: Sketches of the Life Work of Frances Willard, Agnes Weston, Sister Dora, Catherine Booth, The Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Lady Henry Somerset, Sarah Robinson, Mrs Fawcett, and Mrs Gladstone' by Jennie Chappell. Includes portraits and illustrations.
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, board and paper
MeasurementsH: 195 x W: 140 x D: 40 mm
Date Made1909
Period1900s
Place MadeEngland, London
Place NotesS.W. Partridge & Co. Ltd, Old Bailey, London
PublisherS.W. Partridge & Co. Ltd
Publication Date1909
Publication PlaceEngland, London
Series TitlePopular Biographies
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Willard:
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879 and remained president until her death in 1898. Her influence continued in the next decades, as the Eighteenth (on Prohibition) and Nineteenth (on women's suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution were adopted. Willard developed the slogan "Do Everything" for the WCTU and encouraged members to engage in a broad array of social reforms by lobbying, petitioning, preaching, publishing, and education. Willard's accomplishments include raising the age of consent in many states and passing labor reforms, most notably including the eight-hour work day. She also advocated for prison reform, scientific temperance instruction, Christian socialism, and the global expansion of women's rights [continues].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Weston:
Dame Agnes Elizabeth Weston, GBE (26 March 1840 – 23 October 1918) was an English philanthropist noted for her work with the Royal Navy. For over twenty years, she lived and worked among the sailors of the Royal Navy. The result of her powerful influence is evidenced in the widespread reform which took place in the habits of hundreds of men to whom her name was a talisman for good. In her day, one man in six in the navy was a total abstainer. Weston's work included her monthly letters to sailors, Ashore and Afloat, which she edited, and the "Sailors' Rests", which she established in Portsmouth. She was the first woman given a full ceremonial Royal Navy funeral [continues].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Dora:
Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison, better known as Sister Dora (16 January 1832 – 24 December 1878), was an Anglican nun and nurse who worked in Walsall, Staffordshire [continues].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Booth:
Catherine Booth (née Mumford, 17 January 1829 – 4 October 1890) was co-founder of The Salvation Army, along with her husband William Booth. Because of her influence in the formation of The Salvation Army she was known as the 'Mother of The Salvation Army' [continues].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Burdett-Coutts,_1st_Baroness_Burdett-Coutts:
ngela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (née Burdett; 21 April 1814 – 30 December 1906) was a British philanthropist, the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet and Sophia, formerly Coutts, daughter of banker Thomas Coutts. In 1837 she became one of the wealthiest women in England when she inherited her grandfather's fortune of around £1.8 million (equivalent to £210,000,000 in 2023) following the death of her stepgrandmother, Harriot Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans. She joined the surnames of her father and grandfather, by royal licence, to become Burdett-Coutts. Edward VII is reported to have described her as "[a]fter my mother, the most remarkable woman in the kingdom" [continues].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Henry_Somerset:
Isabella Caroline Somerset, Lady Henry Somerset (née Somers-Cocks; 3 August 1851 – 12 March 1921), styled Lady Isabella Somers-Cocks from 5 October 1852 to 6 February 1872, was a British philanthropist, temperance leader and campaigner for women's rights. As president of the British Women's Temperance Association, she spoke at the first World's Woman's Christian Temperance Association convention in Boston in 1891 [continues].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Robinson:
Sarah Robinson (1 August 1834 – 26 November 1921) was a British temperance activist. She set up the Aldershot Mission Institute in 1863 to cater to the town's garrison. Robinson spent much of the 1860s travelling around British Army camps and garrisons distributing bibles, holding prayer meetings and providing games and reading material to the soldiers. She established the Portsmouth Soldiers' Institute in 1874 to cater for soldiers travelling through the port. For her efforts she was nicknamed the "Soldier's Friend" and received some recognition from the government. Robinson suffered from a spinal problem that limited her mobility in later life, though she continued to travel widely to raise funds for her missions. She retired to Burley, Hampshire and wrote a number of books before her death [continues].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millicent_Fawcett:
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE (née Garrett; 11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was an English political activist and writer. She campaigned for women's suffrage by legal change and in 1897–1919 led Britain's largest women's rights association, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), explaining, "I cannot say I became a suffragist. I always was one, from the time I was old enough to think at all about the principles of Representative Government." She tried to broaden women's chances of higher education, as a governor of Bedford College, London (now Royal Holloway) and co-founding Newnham College, Cambridge in 1871. In 2018, a century after the Representation of the People Act, she was the first woman honoured by a statue in Parliament Square [contiunues].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Gladstone:
Catherine Gladstone (née Glynne; 6 January 1812 – 14 June 1900) was the wife of British statesman William Ewart Gladstone for 59 years, from 1839 until his death in 1898 [continues].
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's history
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's work & labour
Subject and Association Keywordsphilanthropy
Subject and Association Keywordsabstinence, temperance
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's suffrage, right to vote
Subject and Association Keywords(auto) biography
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBook
Object numberGWL-2025-82-3
Spine LabelNOBLE WORKERS ~ PARTRIDGE
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved