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Cromer Ladies' Bible Association

A small but revealing voice from 19th-century England, this association’s surviving report offers a glimpse of local women organizing charity, record-keeping, and Bible distribution in and around Cromer. Its work reflects the practical, community-minded side of religious life in the late 1830s.

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Report of the Cromer Ladies' Bible Association, 1838

Report of the Cromer Ladies' Bible Association, 1838

by Cromer Ladies' Bible Association

About the author

Cromer Ladies' Bible Association was not an individual author but a local women's religious society in Cromer, England. The work most commonly associated with it today is Report of the Cromer Ladies' Bible Association, 1838, a committee report printed in Norwich in 1839 and later preserved by Project Gutenberg.

The report presents the association in its own administrative voice, with named officers including presidents, secretaries, a treasurer, and committee members. That gives it the feel of a shared civic document rather than a personal narrative, and it offers a useful snapshot of how women organized charitable and religious activity at a local level in the early 19th century.

For modern readers, the interest of the association lies in that collective perspective. Its surviving publication records everyday philanthropy, subscription work, and community oversight, making it a compact historical source on women's voluntary organizations in Victorian-era Britain.