Mary Carpenter (born April 3, 1807 in Exeter; died June 14, 1877 in Bristol) was an English educational and social reformer.

Her father, Dr Lant Carpenter, was Unitarian minister at Exeter. In 1817 the family removed to Bristol, where Dr Carpenter was called to the ministry of Lewins Mead Meeting. As a child Mary Carpenter was unusually earnest, with a deep religious vein and a remarkable thoroughness in everything she undertook. She was educated in her fathers school for boys, learning Latin, Greek and mathematics, and other subjects at that time not generally taught to girls. She early showed an aptitude for teaching, taking a class in the Sunday school, and afterwards helping her father with his pupils. When Dr Carpenter gave up his school in 1829, his daughters opened a school for girls under Mrs Carpenters superintendence. In 1833 the raja Rammohun Roy visited Bristol, and inspired Miss Carpenter with a warm interest in India; and Dr Joseph Tuckerman of Boston about the same time aroused her sympathies for the condition of distitute children.

Her life-work began with her taking part in organizing, in 1835, a Working and Visiting Society, of which she was secretary for twenty years. In 1843, her interest in black people emancipation was aroused by a visit from Dr S. G. Howe. Her interest in general educational work was also growing. A bill introduced in this year to make provision for the better education of children in manufacturing districts, as a first instalment of a schenie of national education, failed to pass, largely owing to Nonconformist opposition, and private effort became doubly necessary. So-called Ragged Schools sprang up in many places, and Miss Carpenter conceived the plan of starting one in Lewins Mead. To this was added a nightschool for adults. In spite of many difficulties this was rendered a success, chiefly owing to Miss Carpenters unwearied enthusiasm and remarkable organizing power. In 1848 the closing of their own private school gave Miss Carpenter more leisure for philanthropic and literary work. She published a memoir of Dr Tuckerman, and a series of articles on ragged schools, which appeared in the Inquirer and were afterwards collected in book form.

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