‘Baptists, Business and Respectability’: Elisha Smith (1754–1819) and Elisha Smith Robinson (1817–1885)
Studies of a rising middle class in the nineteenth century have suggested that economic success was often accompanied by political influence, and a growing sense of social respectability. Tracing the business interests of one family from a grocer’s shop in the Cotswolds in the late eighteenth centur...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2023
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Baptist quarterly
Year: 2023, Volume: 54, Issue: 3, Pages: 174-190 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBF British Isles KDG Free church |
| Further subjects: | B
Industry
B Baptist Missionary Society B Cotswolds B Bristol B Class |
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| Summary: | Studies of a rising middle class in the nineteenth century have suggested that economic success was often accompanied by political influence, and a growing sense of social respectability. Tracing the business interests of one family from a grocer’s shop in the Cotswolds in the late eighteenth century to the establishment of a Bristol-based, internationally-known company in the nineteenth century, this case study suggests that the growth of denominational life offered wealthy Baptists a particular place of respectability and service. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-7731 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Baptist quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2023.2186019 |