Mary Ann Knight (vegetarian)

Mary Ann Knight
Born
Mary Ann Cooper

c. 1835
Middlesex, England
Died (aged 80)
Broad Oak, Herefordshire, England
Other names
  • Minnie Knight
  • Mrs. Joseph Knight
Occupations
  • Activist
  • writer
MovementVegetarianism
Spouse
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(m. 1874)​

Mary Ann Knight (née Cooper; c. 1835 – 20 February 1915), who wrote as Minnie Knight and Mrs. Joseph Knight, was an English vegetarianism activist and writer. She lectured on vegetarianism and contributed to vegetarian publications. Her husband, Joseph Knight, was a secretary of the Vegetarian Society.

Biography

Knight was born Mary Ann Cooper around 1835 in Middlesex.[1][2] She married Joseph Knight in 1874, a secretary of the Vegetarian Society.[1]

In 1884, while living at St Saviour's Road, Leicester, Knight joined the Vegetarian Society.[3] She lectured on vegetarianism at Hinckley and at her home in Leicester.[1] She was listed among the expected speakers at the Vegetarian Society's May Meetings at Memorial Hall, London, in 1888, alongside Joseph Knight and other speakers.[4] She presented the paper "Women and Vegetarianism".[5]

Knight wrote under the name "Minnie Knight".[1][6] In 1885, Almonds and Raisins published her dialogue between two vegetarians, in which servants adopt vegetarianism after discussion and the receipt of vegetarian tracts.[7] In 1893, her story "Grace Armitage's Party" appeared in the first issue of The Daisy Basket.[8] In 1900, she published vegetarian recipes in The Vegetarian Messenger as "Mrs. Joseph Knight".[9]

Knight lived in Manchester before moving with her husband to Broad Oak, near Hereford, around 1896.[6] She died at Broad Oak on 20 February 1915, aged 80, after three years of increasing suffering from rheumatism.[6][10] Her funeral took place at Broad Oak on 27 February, and she was buried in a plot associated with the Primitive Methodist Chapel.[6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Gregory, James Richard Thomas Elliott (May 2002). "Biographical Index of British Vegetarians and Food reformers of the Victorian Era" (PDF). The Vegetarian Movement in Britain c.1840–1901: A Study of Its Development, Personnel and Wider Connections (PDF) (PhD thesis). Vol. 2. University of Southampton. p. 69. Retrieved 30 May 2026.
  2. ↑ United Kingdom census (1911). "Minnie Knight". FamilySearch. Retrieved 30 May 2026.
  3. ↑ "New Members". The Dietetic Reformer and Vegetarian Messenger (154): i. 1 October 1884 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "The May Meetings". The Vegetarian. 1 (19): 95. 12 May 1888.
  5. ↑ Aoyagi, Akiko; Shurtleff, William (26 March 2022). History of Vegetarianism and Veganism Worldwide (1430 BCE to 1969): Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook (PDF). Soyinfo Center. p. 410. ISBN 978-1-948436-73-1.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Broad Oak: The late Mrs. Joseph Knight". Monmouthshire Beacon. 12 March 1915. p. 8. Retrieved 30 May 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ Gregory, James Richard Thomas Elliott (May 2002). The Vegetarian Movement in Britain c.1840–1901: A Study of Its Development, Personnel and Wider Connections (PDF) (PhD thesis). Vol. 1. University of Southampton. p. 231. Retrieved 30 May 2026.
  8. ↑ "The Daisy Basket". The Vegetarian Messenger. 7 (76): 76. March 1893. Retrieved 30 May 2026 – via Google Books.
  9. ↑ Knight, Mrs. Joseph (February 1900). "Three Recipes". The Vegetarian Messenger. 6th series. 2 (2): 64–65 – via Google Books.
  10. ↑ "Deaths Mar 1915: Knight, Mary A." FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 30 May 2026.
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