Mabel Sharman Crawford

Mabel Sharman Crawford
Born(1820-06-03)3 June 1820
Dublin, Ireland,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Died14 February 1912(1912-02-14) (aged 91)
Middlesex, England,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Parents
RelativesJames Sharman Crawford (brother)

Mabel Sharman Crawford (3 June 1820 – 14 February 1912), was an Irish adventurer, feminist and writer.

Life

She was born Mabel Sharman Crawford on 3 June 1820 in Dublin to William Sharman M.P. and his wife Mabel Frideswid Crawford, a younger daughter in a large family. Her parents took the each other's surnames becoming William and Mabel Sharman Crawford.[1][2][3]

Sharman Crawford was an adventurer who liked to travel and took careful notes wherever she went. When she returned from a trip to Tuscany she wrote about it and published it as a book. She did the same with a trip to Algeria. Her charity work with her sisters during the Irish famine informed her views of the places she saw. Sharman Crawford was also a feminist who did not hesitate to call out where she saw sexist whether in the cultures through which she travelled or in her own.[1][4][5][6][7]

Sharman Crawford was a member of the National Society for Women's Suffrage as a central committee member. She researched into the subject of sentences and actions taken against men who beat their wives and used the results to write the article Maltreatment of Wives for the Westminster Review 139 in 1893. She was also an proponent of the Rational Dress Society.[1][8][4][5][9][10][11][6][7]

Mabel Sharman Crawford died 14 February 1912 in Middlesex, England.[12]

Bibliography

  • Life in Tuscany (1849)
  • Through Algeria (1863)
  • The Wilmot family (1864)
  • Experience of an Irish landowner (1888)
  • Fanny Dennison (1852)
  • Rhymed reflections (1921)
  • Registry offices : a paper read at the Conference of the National Vigilance Association (1886)
  • Social scares (1888)

References and sources

  1. ^ a b c "At the Circulating Library Author Information: Mabel Sharman Crawford". Victoria Research Web. 9 July 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  2. ^ "CRAWFORD, Arthur Johnston (?1786-1827), of Crawfordsburn, co. Down". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  3. ^ "Visitation of Ireland : Howard, Joseph Jackson, 1827-1902". 23 October 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  4. ^ a b Bullock, K. (2002). Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical & Modern Stereotypes. International Institute of Islamic Thought. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-56564-287-4. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  5. ^ a b Chapman, D. (2017). Wearing the Trousers: Fashion, Freedom and the Rise of the Modern Woman. Amberley Publishing. p. 152. ISBN 978-1-4456-6951-9. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  6. ^ a b Bruno, G. (2002). Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film. Studies in modernity and national identity. Verso. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-85984-802-9. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  7. ^ a b Corporaal, M.; Morin, C. (2017). Traveling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century. New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature. Springer International Publishing. p. 50. ISBN 978-3-319-52527-3. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  8. ^ Surridge, Lisa (1 January 2012). "Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction". Project MUSE. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  9. ^ Burton, A.M. (1994). Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915. University of North Carolina Press. p. 236. ISBN 978-0-8078-4471-7. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  10. ^ Shanley, M.L. (1993). Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton paperbacks. Princeton University Press. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-691-02487-5. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  11. ^ Moghissi, H. (2005). Women and Islam: Images and realities. Critical concepts in sociology. Routledge. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-415-32419-9. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  12. ^ "Probate details" (PDF).