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| ====== A Stray: Mary Prior ====== | ====== A Stray: Mary Prior ====== |
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| Saving ‘fallen’ women((Any woman who had sex outside of marriage - including prostitutes, incest and rape victims, and single mothers.)) was a key concern for philanthropic women in the late 18th and 19th century, but help often came at a heavy price for the women concerned: incarceration in a ‘Magdalen’ asylum and a heavy diet of punitive religiosity, penitence and deprivation. I have a book (bound together with Burke’s //Landed Gentry//) that was probably a fund-raising publication for one such institution in London. The book is //The Hymns, Anthems and Tunes with the Ode used at the Magdalen Chapel set for the organ harpsichord, Voice German-flute or Guitar, Book I// (published c. 1790). An inscription in the front reads: | Saving ‘fallen’ women((Any woman who had sex outside of marriage - including prostitutes, incest and rape victims, and single mothers.)) was a key concern for philanthropic women in the late 18th and 19th century, but help often came at a heavy price for the women concerned: incarceration in a ‘Magdalen’ asylum and a heavy diet of punitive religiosity, penitence and deprivation. A book (bound together with Burke’s //Landed Gentry//) was probably a fund-raising publication for one such institution in London. The book is //The Hymns, Anthems and Tunes with the Ode used at the Magdalen Chapel set for the organ harpsichord, Voice German-flute or Guitar, Book I// (published c. 1790).((Provenance: J. Godden.)) An inscription in the front reads: |
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| '//- Mary Prior – to whom this Book belonged died unmarried at an advanced Age at No 5 in the West Mall Clifton on 18 December 1868 and was buried (according to her own desire) in Clifton Church yard, under a Stone[?] and monumental Inscription 24th of the same month. E[l?] Byam her Executor – Ellen Byam her sister.//' | '//- Mary Prior – to whom this Book belonged died unmarried at an advanced Age at No 5 in the West Mall Clifton on 18 December 1868 and was buried (according to her own desire) in Clifton Church yard, under a Stone[?] and monumental Inscription 24th of the same month. E[l?] Byam her Executor – Ellen Byam her sister.//' |