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Elizabeth Jesser Reid

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offered at the time. Bedford College played a leading role in the advancement of women in higher education, and in public life in general. The National Archives U.K. holds a number of letters written to Reid that reference noted Victorian advocates of female education, including
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Reid died in 1866, leaving her remaining wealth in a trust fund for the college. Reid had insisted on women being involved with the governance of the college and there were three women trustees including her friend
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that had become valuable as the port grew in size. His death in July 1822 gave her an independent income, which she used to help various philanthropic causes.
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institution that aimed to provide a liberal and non-sectarian education for female students – something no other institution in the
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and the other American female delegates who had been denied the right to speak at the convention. and taking a close interest in the
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Modern Portraits for Modern Women: Principals and Pioneers from the Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Art Collection
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University Work: Re-Forming Manuscripts in Elizabeth Jesser Reid’s Correspondence Networks
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Active in liberal Unitarian circles, Reid was an anti-slavery activist, attending the
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Sturch; 25 December 1789 – 1 April 1866), forename sometimes spelled
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Sybil Oldfield, "Reid , Elisabeth Jesser (1789–1866)", rev.
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List of Principals of Royal Holloway, University of London
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Genesis website page on Bedford College's archived papers
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Beginnings website page on history of Bedford College
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Her letters are held at The Royal Holloway Archives.
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List of Royal Holloway, University of London people
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Elisabeth Jesser Reid

London
London
Bedford College
John Reid
/rd/
née
English
social reformer
anti-slavery
philanthropist
Bedford College
London
William Sturch
Unitarian
John Reid
River Clyde
Glasgow
World Anti-Slavery Convention
Lucretia Mott
American Civil War
Bedford Square
Bloomsbury
higher education
United Kingdom
Harriet Martineau
Frances Lupton
Elizabeth Anne Bostock
Eleanor Smith

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