Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Thomas Bray
Standard Name: Bray, Thomas
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8 March 1698: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...
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8 March 1698
The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
or SPCK, set up to provide charity schools (and missionary outreach in British colonies), held its first meeting.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. The Charity School Movement: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Puritanism in Action. F. Cass, 1964.
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Adamson, John William. Pioneers of Modern Education 1600-1700. Cambridge University Press, 1905.
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1723: Dr Thomas Bray, who had founded the Society...
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1723
Dr Thomas Bray
, who had founded the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
, used a bequest from a Dutch secretary to William III
to found Dr Bray's Associates
, an organization supporting parochial libraries...
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