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Données personnelles Louisa Gurney 

• Elle est née le 25 septembre 1784 dans Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom.
• (MARR) le 24 décembre 1806 dans Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom: Spouse: Samuel Hoare, Jr..
• Elle est décédée le 6 septembre 1836 dans Hampstead, London, elle avait 51 ans.
• Un enfant de John Gurney et Catherine Barclay Bell

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_Gurney_Hoareon 25 September 1784, was the seventh of the eleven children of John Gurney (1749–1809) of Earlham Hall near Norwich, a Quaker, and of Catherine Bell (1754–1792). Her father inherited ownership of Gurney's Bank in Norwich. Her siblings included Elizabeth Fry, prison reformer, Joseph John Gurney ((1788–1847) and Samuel Gurney (1786–1856), philanthropists, and Daniel Gurney (1791–1880), banker and antiquary. They were educated privately, at first by their mother and then by Catherine Bell Gurney, the eldest sister, according to her mother's precepts. The regimen of play, adult conversation and free use of Earlham library was at variance with the Quaker traditions of that period. They were permitted to explore other religions and had both Unitarian and Roman Catholic friends, partly through the Norwich school to which Joseph John was sent, and where his sisters also attended some lessons.was the most avidly kept. It recorded adolescent enthusiasms for nature, music, and politics, and her aversion to the duller aspects of Quaker observance, and to any unjust treatment of herself or her brothers and sisters. She stated that she was disgusted when a twelve-year-old cousin kissed her, but she later married him: the banker Samuel Hoare (1783–1847) of Hampstead, on 24 December 1806. the daughter of his old friend. With perfect confidence in her principles, and a persuasion that she would make my brother happy, he was pleased with her being, like my mother, a Norfolk woman, and interested himself much in procuring for them an house at Hampstead that they might be established near him." Husband and wife were both baptised into the Church of England in 1812.ss Fowell Buxton, and the prison reform movement of her sister Elizabeth Fry and her own husband. She was a founder of the Ladies' Society for Promoting Education in the West Indies (1825), which was supported by other members of the Hoare, Gurney, Buxton and Ricardo families.19) was originally written for the nursemaid to the first of her six children. It continued to sell well for eighty years. Her experience was enriched family tradition and by the influences of 18th and 19th century authorities as such as John Locke, François Fénelon, John Foster, Thomas Babington, and Philip Doddridge, as well as contemporaries such as Sarah Trimmer and Hannah More.second book, Friendly Advice on the Management and Education of Children, Addressed to Parents of the Middle and Labouring Classes of Society (1824), was intended as a supplement to school. Its that discipline should "preserve children from evil, not from childishness" foreshadows affirmative views of childhood that would gain strength in the Victorian era. Parents, she said, should respect their children, and treat them justly, understanding that they, too, had rights. Most importantly, parents should set a good example. Then, when their children imitated their speech and actions (as children do), they would not feel ashamed. Her final book was Letters from a Work-House Boy (1826). She died in Hampstead on 6 September 1836. and writer on education, and a member of the Gurney family.ch, a Quaker, and of Catherine Bell (1754–1792). Her father inherited ownership of Gurney's Bank in Norwich. Her siblings included Elizabeth Fry, prison reformer, Joseph John Gurney (1788–1847) and Samuel Gurney (1786–1856), philanthropists, and Daniel Gurney (1791–1880), banker and antiquary. They were educated privately, at first by their mother and then by Catherine Bell Gurney, the eldest sister, according to her mother's precepts. The regimen of play, adult conversation and free use of Earlham library was at variance with the Quaker traditions of that period. They were permitted to explore other religions and had both Unitarian and Roman Catholic friends, partly through the Norwich school to which Joseph John was sent, where his sisters also attended some lessons.hildren were encouraged to keep diaries or "journals of conscience". Louisa's was the most avidly kept. It recorded adolescent enthusiasms for nature, music, and politics, and her aversion to the duller aspects of Quaker observance, and to any unjust treatment of herself or her brothers and sisters. She wrote that she was disgusted when a twelve-year-old second cousin of hers kissed her, but she later married him, the 23-year-old banker Samuel Hoare of Hampstead, on 24 December 1806 at Tasborough Meeting House in Norfolk. Hoare. According to her sister-in-law, "I know of no event which gave my father more pleasure than the engagement of his son to the daughter of his old friend. With perfect confidence in her principles, and a persuasion that she would make my brother happy, he was pleased with her being, like my mother, a Norfolk woman, and interested himself much in procuring for them an house at Hampstead that they might be established near him." Both the husband and the wife were baptised into the Church of England in 1812.and sisters. She contributed to several of their causes: the anti-slavery campaign of her brother-in-law Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, and the prison reform movement of her sister Elizabeth Fry and her own husband. She was a founder in 1825 of the Ladies' Society for Promoting Education in the West Indies, which was supported by other members of the Hoare, Gurney, Buxton and Ricardo families.er, her main concern became education. Her Hints for the Improvement of Early Education and Nursery Discipline (1819) was originally written for the nursemaid to the first of her six children. "Good education," she wrote in the introduction, "must be the result of one consistent and connected system." The book continued to sell well for eighty years. Her experience was enriched by family tradition and by the influences of 18th and 19th-century authorities as such as John Locke, François Fénelon, John Foster, Thomas Babington, and Philip Doddridge, and contemporaries of hers such as Sarah Trimmer and Hannah More.upplement school learning. Its message that discipline should "preserve children from evil, not from childishness" foreshadows affirmative views of childhood that would gain strength in the Victorian era. Parents, she pointed out, should respect their children and treat them justly, understanding that they, too, have rights. Most importantly, parents should set a good example, for their children would imitate their speech and actions.ied in Hampstead on 6 September 1836. One of her six children, Edward, later wrote an account of the upbringing he had received.

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