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Barbara Ann Wilberforce (née Spooner; 1771 – 21 April 1847) was the spouse of abolitionist and MP William Wilberforce.
1 de mar. de 2012 · This chapter provides a brief summary of the lives of after the Clapham Sect after the death of Wilberforce. Barbara Wilberforce spent her widowhood travelling between the houses of her sons and her sister. Robert Wilberforce married Agnes Wrangham, who died in childbirth in 1834.
William Wilberforce (1759-1833) foi um filantropo e político abolicionista inglês. Dedicou sua existência a diversas causas libertárias, sendo a principal delas o abolicionismo, atuando enquanto representante político por cerca de 45 anos e influenciando diretamente na realização do Ato de Abolição da Escravatura, em 1833 na Inglaterra.
10 de ago. de 2020 · Barbara Wilberforce, Marianne Thornton, Sarah Stephen and Selena Macaulay all supported evangelical family values and their husbands' moral reform causes within the domestic realm. Henry Thornton, a cousin of William Wilberforce, owned extensive grounds on Clapham Common and built three neighbouring houses with a communal garden.
In April 1797 aged 37, William Wilberforce met Barbara Spooner, a young woman who shared his deeply held Christian beliefs. Eight days after meeting Barbara, William proposed and they were married a month later. The couple were devoted to each other and had six children.
In his youth, William Wilberforce showed little interest in women, but when he was in his late thirties his friend Thomas Babington recommended 25-year-old Barbara Ann Spooner (1771–1847) as a potential bride.
This chapter looks at William and Barbara’s Wilberforce’s relationships with their sons. Their anxieties were caused by their fear of male adolescence, and their belief in the necessity of conversion.
