The Bluestockings
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Anglicans and Philanthropy
This was quite strongly anglican movement. A number of the blue stockings were very closely tied to archbishops of canterbury and leading anglican theologians of their day. So i think it's important to see this as a kind of social anglicanism. In the second generation, hannah more who wrote that conversation that elizabeth quoted, moved into the evangelical wing of the church. She opened a number of sunday schools in somerset, was very instrumental in in a school movement for poorer children. But they were stern supporters of the anglican ascendancy, really they were. And they were deeply implicated in terms of family, in terms of social
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