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Mary
Louisa Georgina Petrie (1861 – November 19, 1935), later Mrs. Ashley
Carus-Wilson (Mary Carus-Wilson or Mrs. C. (Charles) Ashley Wilson), was an
English author and speaker known for her work on biblical study and missionary
work. Her father was Martin Petrie. She wrote a biography about her sister,
Irene Petrie, a missionary to Kashmir. The Pitts Theology Library at Emory
University has a collection of her papers.[1]
Eleanora Carus-Wilson was her daughter. She was also published using the name
Helen Macdowall in the Sunday at Home and lectured on women's suffrage.
In England she established a correspondence program for the secular study of
scripture.[2]
Petrie was born in Yorktown, Surrey, England, the eldest daughter of
Colonel Martin Petrie and his wife Eleanora Grant Macdowall Petrie. She
graduated from University College, London, with a B.A. in 1881.[1][3]
Petrie founded, edited, and was president of The College by Post, a
program for secular biblical study via correspondence created in the late 19th
century.[4]
She had articles published in various Christian and women's publications.
She wrote nine books about missionaries and Bible study. She was also a
speaker.
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Her book Clews to the Holy Writ, promoted studying the Bible in its
historical order. She wrote Irene Petrie: Missionary to Kashmir of her
sister who died doing missionary work in India.[1]
She married Charles Ashley Carus-Wilson, a professor in Montreal, Canada,
in 1892, and they had three children. After her marriage, she published under
the name C. Ashley Carus-Wilson except in The Sunday at Home where she
went by Helen Macdowall, her mother's family name. Her children were named
Louis, Martin, and Eleanora (Eleanora Carus-Wilson). She died November 19,
1935 leaving to her two surviving children the home in Kensington that she
inherited from her father.[1]
Alfred Tucker corresponded with her September 20, 1903.[5]
She planned to write a biography about him.[6]
She left her freehold to her daughter Eleanora.
She also wrote on the medical education of women.[7]
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