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Mar 12, 2022 · Catherine Booth, who founded The Salvation Army with her husband William, pioneered a radical approach to social action and female equality. To mark International Women’s History Month, Cathy Le Feuvre, author of the biography William and Catherine, speaks to Emily Bright about Catherine's legacy.
e. Catherine Booth (née Mumford, 17 January 1829 – 4 October 1890) was co-founder of The Salvation Army, along with her husband William Booth. Because of her influence in the formation of The Salvation Army she was known as the 'Mother of The Salvation Army'.
Catherine and William met when he went to preach at her church. They married in June 1855. Catherine was quieter and unfamiliar with public speaking. But she grew in confidence and stature, driven by the belief that a woman should have the same right to speak as a man.
In 1825 she married John Booth, who described himself as 'a gentleman of Margate'. He was 37 years older than her. They established a guest house on the seafront in Margate, near the harbour. In 1826 Sophia gave birth to a son, John Pound Booth, who died of cholera in 1832.
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She met William Booth, a Methodistminister, when he came to preach at her church in 1852. They soon became engaged, and during their three year engagement, they were often separated due to William's itinerant preaching. Catherine Booth lent support and strength to her future husband through letters she wrote to him, often on a daily basis. They wer...
After leaving the Methodist New Connexion in 1865, the Booths began the work of The Christian Mission in earnest with a "Soup Kitchen and Poor Man's Dining Hall" at The People's Hall in Whitechapel. They also began the publication of the Christian Mission Magazine which warned—somewhat ahead of its time—of the dangers of tobacco. (Their later publi...
Illnesses she suffered for most of her life did little to slow Booth down. Early on, she was an advocate of homeopathy and alternative forms of medicine. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1888, she refused surgery. Although suffering in the final stages of cancer, she still managed to occasionally speak at Salvation Army meetings and to ...
Booth, Catherine. Aggressive Christianity. Diggory Press, 2005. ISBN 1905363117Booth-Tucker, Frederick St. George de Lautour. The Short Life of Catherine Booth, the Mother of the Salvation Army. Adamant Media Corporation, 2000. ISBN 1421266652Booth, Catherine. Godliness. Kessinger Publishing, 2004. ISBN 1419122029Hattersley, Roy. Blood and Fire: William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army. Little Brown, 1999. ISBN 0385494394All links retrieved January 19, 2017. 1. "Booth, Catherine Mumford, 1829-1890", Project Gutenberg. 2. "Our Children," The Gospel Truth.
Bones and Booth is term for the relationship between Temperance Brennan and Seeley Booth. The relationship between them is both professional and personal. While Booth and Brennan maintain a professional relationship and friendship, there is also the beginning of a romantic tension within their...
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Booth married Mary Catherine, only daughter of Charles Zachary Macaulay, and granddaughter of Zachary Macaulay in 1871. Her father was one of the founders of the Society for the Suppression of Vice and an antislavery activist and no doubt influenced his daughter’s own views on social reform and research.
