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Sophia Dobson Collet (1 February 1822 – 27 March 1894) was a 19th-century English feminist freethinker. She wrote under the pen name Panthea in George Holyoake's ''Reasoner'', wrote for ''The Spectator'' and was a friend of the leading feminist Frances Power Cobbe. She was also the aunt of civil servant Clara Collett. ==South Place Ethical Chapel== She was born Sophia Dobson in the parish of St. Pancras, London, the fifth of seven children. She was described by Richard Garnett in the biography of William Johnson Fox as having attacks of a "disabling illness". Her elder brother was the chartist radical Collet Dobson Collet (1812–1898).〔 Another of her brothers was the engineer Edward Dobson (1816/17?–1908). She was a supporter of the South Place Ethical Chapel (now Conway Hall Ethical Society) and wrote several hymns for the organisation.Her brother Charles was its musical director.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.collettfamilyhistory.net/Part%2017%20-%20The%20Maldon%20Essex%20Line%20Rev.5.htm )〕 She was friends with the South Place composer Eliza Flower and Sarah Fuller Flower Adams. It is at South Place that she came into contact with George Holyoake. She would contribute to both ''The Reasoner'' and ''The Movement'' from the 1840s to 1850s as well as have continued correspondence with Holyoake long after.〔 She is also credited with preserving many of Fox's writings.〔 She wrote an appraisal of George Holyoake and his work in ''George Jacob Holyoake and modern atheism: a biographical and critical essay'' in 1855 which was well received.〔 The book was an expanded version of what she had written as Panthea in the ''Free Inquirer''. It echoed the same conciliatory tone between religion and non-religion that Holyoake had long espoused. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sophia Dobson Collet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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