Keywords
- Female reformer
- Reformatory schools
- Ragged schools
- Industrial schools
- Educational reform
- Penal reform
- Prisons
- Juvenile delinquents
- Women
- India
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Schwan, A. (2020). Carpenter, Mary. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_178-1
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