Sarah Ann Ridgway : First Bahá'í in the North of England
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TextSeries: Baha'i Heritage SeriesPublication details: Oxford George Ronald 2003Description: x, 101 pages : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 21 cmISBN: - 0-85309-480-8
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Here is the story of a working class woman, a silk weaver, born in the middle of the 19th century into a family of cotton weavers, who embraced a religion little known in the West. There were seven names carved into the front of the gravestone and eight into the back - fifteen people in the same grave in Agecroft Cemetery, Salford. One was a remarkable woman, the first Bahá’í in the north of England: Sarah Ann Ridgway. Set against the backdrop of a world moving from an agrarian society to an industrial one, Sarah Ann’s story gives us a glimpse into the lives of ordinary working people, their households, factories and schools. But there is a story within this story: the determined quest of one Bahá’í woman to unveil the life of another.
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