Caroline Ashurst Stansfeld

Caroline Stansfeld
Portrait of Caroline Ashurst Stansfeld
Born(1816-01-28)28 January 1816
Died29 March 1885(1885-03-29) (aged 69)
NationalityEnglish
OccupationActivist
Spouse
(m. 1844)
ChildrenJoseph James Stansfeld
RelativesWilliam Ashurst (father)
Eliza Ann Ashurst Bardonneau (sister)
Matilda Ashurst Biggs (sister)
Emilie Ashurst Venturi (sister)

Caroline Ashurst Stansfeld (/ˈstænsfld/ STANSS-feeld; 28 January 1816 – 29 March 1885) was a member of an important family of radical activists in mid-nineteenth-century England who supported causes ranging from women's suffrage to Italian unification. In 1844, she married[1] Sir James Stansfeld (1820–1898), the future MP for Halifax and preeminent political advocate for the movement to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts.[2] She maintained a close friendship with Italian nationalist Giuseppe Mazzini, who wrote to her frequently and 1,500 of his letters to the family have been published in E.F. Richards’ collection: Letters to an English Family.[3]

  1. ^ Gleadle, Kathryn. "Caroline Stansfeld". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
  2. ^ On Stansfeld's important political career see J.L. Hammond and Barbara Hammond, James Stansfeld: A Victorian Champion of Sex Equality (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1932).
  3. ^ E. F. Richards. Mazzini's Letters to an English Family., 3 vols. New York: John Lane, 1920–22.

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