Lucy Townsend

Standard Name: Townsend, Lucy

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Family and Intimate relationships	Matilda Charlotte Houstoun	MCH 's aunt Lucy Townsend was a zealous participant in anti-slavery campaigning at a time when major associations such as the Anti-Slavery Society showed hostility towards the participation of women. (Women's anti-slavery societies tended to...

Lucy Townsend hosted a meeting at which the first British slavery association for women was formed, the Birmingham Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves (which later changed its name to the Female Society for Birmingham

American women were refused entry as delegates to the first World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London.

Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.

Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.

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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.

Davidson, Cathy N., and Linda Wagner-Martin, editors. The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States. Oxford University Press, 1995.

Halbersleben, Karen I. Women’s Participation in the British Antislavery Movement, 1824-1865. Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.

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Halbersleben, Karen I. Women’s Participation in the British Antislavery Movement, 1824-1865. Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.

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Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.

British abolitionist Julia Griffiths , a supporter of Frederick Douglass , toured England and Scotland founding women's auxiliaries.

Halbersleben, Karen I. Women’s Participation in the British Antislavery Movement, 1824-1865. Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.

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