Mary L. G. Carus-Wilson (née Mary Louisa Georgina Petrie; after marriage, Mrs. Ashley Carus-Wilson, or Mary Carus-Wilson, or Mrs. C. (Charles) Ashley Wilson; pen names, C. Ashley Carus-Wilson and Helen Macdowall; 1861 – November 19, 1935), 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
editMary Louisa Georgina 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
editPetrie 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. 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 also wrote on the medical education of women.[5]
Personal life
editShe 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 on 20 September 1903.[6] She planned to write a biography about him.[7] She bequeathed her freehold to her daughter Eleanora.[citation needed]
Bibliography
edit- 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
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d "Carus-Wilson, Mary Louisa G. P." pitts.emory.edu. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ Taylor, Marion Ann (1 October 2012). Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters: A Historical and Biographical Guide. Baker Books. ISBN 9781441238672 – via Google Books.
- ^ Marion Ann Taylor (2012). Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters: A Historical and Biographical Guide. Baker Books. pp. 233–. ISBN 978-1-4412-3867-2.
- ^ "Education for the Kingdom: "Whose Child?" by Mary L. G. Petrie". 3 September 2011.
- ^ Mitchinson, Wendy (24 May 1991). The Nature of Their Bodies: Women and Their Doctors in Victorian Canada. University of Toronto Press. p. 390. ISBN 9780802068408 – via Internet Archive.
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- ^ 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.
- ^ Alfred Robert Tucker collection. 24 May 1890. OCLC 26448934.
- ^ "Serving One Another". digital.library.upenn.edu.
- ^ PETRIE, afterwards CARUS-WILSON, Mary Louisa Georgina (14 February 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.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ PETRIE, afterwards CARUS-WILSON, Mary Louisa Georgina (14 February 1911). The Debt of the Home to the Book ... Tercentenary celebration, Authorised Version of the English Bible. London. OCLC 504526355.
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