Mary Louisa Georgina Petrie

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Mary Louisa Georgina Petrie (1861 – November 19, 1935), later Mrs. Ashley Carus-Wilson (Mary Carus-Wilson or Mrs. C. (Charles) Ashley Wilson), was an English author and speaker known for her work on biblical study and missionary work. Her father was Martin Petrie. She wrote a biography about her sister, Irene Petrie, a missionary to Kashmir. The Pitts Theology Library at Emory University has a collection of her papers.[1] Eleanora Carus-Wilson was her daughter. She was also published using the name Helen Macdowall in the Sunday at Home and lectured on women's suffrage. In England she established a correspondence program for the secular study of scripture.[2]

Early life[]

Petrie was born in Yorktown, Surrey, England, the eldest daughter of Colonel Martin Petrie and his wife Eleanora Grant Macdowall Petrie. She graduated from University College, London, with a B.A. in 1881.[1][3]

Career[]

Petrie founded, edited, and was president of The College by Post, a program for secular biblical study via correspondence created in the late 19th century.[4]

She had articles published in various Christian and women's publications. She wrote nine books about missionaries and Bible study. She was also a speaker. [1]

Her book Clews to the Holy Writ, promoted studying the Bible in its historical order. She wrote Irene Petrie: Missionary to Kashmir of her sister who died doing missionary work in India.[1]

She married Charles Ashley Carus-Wilson, a professor in Montreal, Canada, in 1892, and they had three children. After her marriage, she published under the name C. Ashley Carus-Wilson except in The Sunday at Home where she went by Helen Macdowall, her mother's family name. Her children were named Louis, Martin, and Eleanora (Eleanora Carus-Wilson). She died November 19, 1935 leaving to her two surviving children the home in Kensington that she inherited from her father.[1]

Alfred Tucker corresponded with her September 20, 1903.[5] She planned to write a biography about him.[6]

She left her freehold to her daughter Eleanora.[citation needed]

She also wrote on the medical education of women.[7]

Bibliography[]

  • Clews to Holy writ; or, The chronological Scripture cycle; scheme for studying the whole Bible in its historical order during three years (1892) and London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1894)
  • Tokiwa and Other Poems by Mary Louisa Georgina Petrie Carus-Wilson (1895)
  • Unseal the book : practical words for plain readers of Holy Scripture (1899)
  • Irene Petrie, Missionary to Kashmir (1901) by Mary Louisa Georgina Petrie Carus-Wilson, Hodder and Stoughton
  • The expansion of Christendom: a study in religious history
  • Unseal the book: practical words for plain readers of Holy Scripture
  • Saint Paul: missionary to the nations: a scheme for the study of his life and writings (1905)
  • Redemptor Mundi. A scheme for the missionary study of the four Gospels (1907)
  • A Tabular Scheme for reading the Bible chronologically, according to "Clews to Holy Writ" by Mrs. Carus-Wilson. Moore & Edwards, Uppermill (1909)
  • S. Peter and S. John, first missionaries of the Gospel: a scheme for the study of the earliest Christian age
  • Ben and his mother, published by Thomas Nelson and Sons (juvenile fiction)
  • Baghdad [With illustrations and a map], London, (1918)

Papers and articles[]

  • Serving one another (1893)[8]
  • The medical education of women : a lecture (1895)
  • Best Methods of promoting Temperance (1901), a paper she presented at the annual Women's Union conference.[9]
  • Debt of the Home to the Book, article[10]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Carus-Wilson, Mary Louisa G. P." pitts.emory.edu.
  2. ^ Taylor, Marion Ann (October 1, 2012). Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters: A Historical and Biographical Guide. Baker Books. ISBN 9781441238672 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Marion Ann Taylor (2012). Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters: A Historical and Biographical Guide. Baker Books. pp. 233–. ISBN 978-1-4412-3867-2.
  4. ^ "Education for the Kingdom: "Whose Child?" by Mary L. G. Petrie". September 3, 2011.
  5. ^ Mattia, Joan Plubell (2011). "Walking the Rift: The Missionary Art of Bishop Alfred Robert Tucker". Anglican and Episcopal History. 80 (3): 242–265. JSTOR 42612605.
  6. ^ Alfred Robert Tucker collection. May 24, 1890. OCLC 26448934.
  7. ^ Mitchinson, Wendy (May 24, 1991). The Nature of Their Bodies: Women and Their Doctors in Victorian Canada. University of Toronto Press. p. 390. ISBN 9780802068408 – via Internet Archive. mary carus-wilson mcgill.
  8. ^ "Serving One Another". digital.library.upenn.edu.
  9. ^ PETRIE, afterwards CARUS-WILSON, Mary Louisa Georgina (February 14, 1901). The Best Methods of promoting Temperance among educated women. Being a paper read at the Annual Conference of the Women's Union, etc. London. OCLC 504526325.
  10. ^ PETRIE, afterwards CARUS-WILSON, Mary Louisa Georgina (February 14, 1911). The Debt of the Home to the Book ... Tercentenary celebration, Authorised Version of the English Bible. London. OCLC 504526355.
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