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Hannah O'Brien Chaplin

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Hannah O'Brien Chaplin
Born(1809-09-05)September 5, 1809
Danvers, Massachusetts, USA
DiedFebruary 18, 1865(1865-02-18) (aged 55)
Pen nameH. C. Conant
SpouseThomas Jefferson Conant

Hannah O'Brien Chaplin Conant (née, Chaplin; pen name, H. C. Conant; September 5, 1809—February 18, 1865)[1] was an American biblical scholar.

Biography

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Hannah O'Brien Chaplin was born in Danvers, Massachusetts, September 5, 1809. She was the daughter of clergyman Jeremiah Chaplin and Marcia S. O'Brien.[2] In 1830, she was married to Thomas Jefferson Conant,[3] and in 1839 she became the editor of The Mother's Monthly Journal.[2] She translated from the German Strauss' Baptism in Jordan, Neander's commentary on Philippians, and works by other authors.[2] Her works are The Earnest Man, a biography of Adoniram Judson (1855), and a Popular History of English Bible Translation (1856).[3] She was an able assistant in her husband's Hebrew studies.[3]

Selected works

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  • The earnest man : a sketch of the character and labors of Adoniram Judson, first missionary to Burmah (1855)
  • Popular History of English Bible Translation (1856)
  • The English Bible. History of the translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue. With specimens of the old English versions (1856)
  • The popular history of the translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue. With specimens of the old English versions (1880)

References

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  1. ^ "Hannah O'Brien Chaplin Conant." Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Biography In Context. Web. 28 Feb. 2013.
  2. ^ a b c Scanlon, Jennifer (1996). American women historians, 1700s-1990s : a biographical dictionary. Internet Archive. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-1-4294-7636-2.
  3. ^ a b c Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Conant, Thomas Jefferson" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 822–823.