The writer Anna M. Stoddart (1840-1911) published biographies of Isabella Bird and the classical scholar John Stuart Blackie (both also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection) before this 1908 life of the educationalist Hannah E. Pipe (1831-1906). Pipe was sent in 1847 to Chorlton high school, run by William Ballantyne Hodgson, who mapped out for her a teaching career. This biography was written for, and at the urging of, Pipe's ex-pupils, concerned to record her life 'before it crumbles into oblivion'. She opened her first school in Manchester, but moved to London in 1856: Stoddart herself was one of her staff; music was taught by Sterndale Bennett, and science by William Huggins. The school was enormously successful, and Pipe also became involved in other philanthropic causes, being a friend of Octavia Hill and F. D. Maurice. This is a fascinating account of an inspiring teacher and educational pioneer.

Isabella Bird (1831 1904) was one of the most famous Victorian female explorers, and the first woman member of the Royal Geographical Society. Bird was recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure for physical and nervous complaints. She toured the United States and Canada, Australasia and the Far East before her marriage to Dr John Bishop in 1881. After his death in 1886 she decided to become a missionary, and travelled to India and little-known parts of the Middle East. She then went to Iraq, China and Morocco. Each of her expeditions produced very successful books, many in the form of letters to her sister, beginning with An Englishwoman in America (1856); most of these are also reissued in this series. This biography by Anna Stoddart, who had known and admired Bird, was published in 1906 and depicts a daring, determined and perceptive woman.

John Stuart Blackie (1805-1895) trained in law and studied divinity in Scotland and Germany before becoming a professor of Classics. Confident, well-travelled, vivacious, and outspoken, he delivered numerous public lectures, was instrumental in the founding of the Gaelic Chair at Edinburgh University, and published translations of many German and Classical works, as well as an impressive body of literary criticism. He was active in Radical politics, a strong opponent of the 1867 Reform Bill, and well-known for his eccentric dress. Anna M. Stoddart's detailed biography of Blackie, published in 1896, provides captivating insights into this extraordinary man's life and times by drawing on letters and papers provided by Blackie's widow and colleagues soon after his death. It remains a useful source for scholars interested in Scottish education or the experience of Scots abroad, as well as those studying nineteenth-century literature and literary criticism.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1911 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1895 Edition.

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1911. This work gives a biographical account of the life of Paracelsus or Theophrastus von Hohenheim 1493-1541. For some years Ms. Stoddart devoted her whole life and energies to this work on Paracelsus. Her previous studies and her linguistic attainments specially fitted her for the task, and she spent many months in Germany and Italy in order to investigate on the spot the career of a very remarkable man who is known to the British public mainly through the works of Robert Browning. Illustrated.

1911. This work gives a biographical account of the life of Paracelsus or Theophrastus von Hohenheim 1493-1541. For some years Ms. Stoddart devoted her whole life and energies to this work on Paracelsus. Her previous studies and her linguistic attainments specially fitted her for the task, and she spent many months in Germany and Italy in order to investigate on the spot the career of a very remarkable man who is known to the British public mainly through the works of Robert Browning. Illustrated.

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1895. Part One of Two. The biography of Blackie who was one of one of the best-known Scotsmen of his time. Blackie was a Radical and Scottish nationalist in politics, but of a fearlessly independent type; he was one of the characters of the Edinburgh of the day, and was a well-known figure as he went about in his plaid, worn shepherd-wise, wearing a broad brimmed hat, and carrying a big stick. Contents of Volume One: Parentage and Childhood; At School and College; Student Life in Gottingen; Student Life in Berlin; Rome; End of Wanderjahre; Years of Struggle; The Test Acts; Installation and Marriage; Aberdeen and University Reform; Aeschylus and the Greek Chair; Edinburgh; and Lays, Lectures, and Lyrics. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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1911. This work gives a biographical account of the life of Paracelsus or Theophrastus von Hohenheim 1493-1541. For some years Ms. Stoddart devoted her whole life and energies to this work on Paracelsus. Her previous studies and her linguistic attainments specially fitted her for the task, and she spent many months in Germany and Italy in order to investigate on the spot the career of a very remarkable man who is known to the British public mainly through the works of Robert Browning. Illustrated.

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