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Southampton in the Nineteenth Century Reformer Tale
The article retells a Southampton library row from 1869 where Hartley Institute headmaster C W Hankin faced trustees over suggesting the Book of Jasher by Dr Donaldson. Rector Mark Cooper denounced the idea as impure and atheistic, triggering a public clash on censorship, scholarship, and reading liberty in a town famed for its docks and institutes.
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England
Southampton
Hartley Institute
Grammar School
University of Oxford
C. W. Hankin
J. W. Donaldson
Jasher
Donaldson
Bury St. Edmund’s Grammar School
Hankin
Institute
Cooper
Mr. Cooper
Shirley Council
Agholar
Nipasurba
Hartley Institution
Usle
Council
Church of England
London
Saturday Review
Spectator
Atheneum
Britannica
Spain
Philip II
Dr. Donaldson
Jerome
Cicero
Gibbon
Julian the
Areopagitica
Peter
Reading
Ddtumpton
Weaver
Liberation Society
St. Mary’s
Pope