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==Fame and international Career==
 
==Fame and international Career==
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Carpenter became celebrated in her own time for her philanthropic work a and advanced ideas. She traveled and lectured in support of women's education and prison reform, visiting the USA, Canada, Germany and France.
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Carpenter became celebrated in her own time for her philanthropic work and advanced ideas. She traveled and lectured in support of women's education and prison reform, visiting the USA, Canada, Germany and France.
    
In 1866-70 she made three working visits India where she visited girls' schools, prisons and mental asylums to see the conditions there, and campaigned there for reform of child marriage, meeting and working with [[Florence Nightingale]]. She inspected the condition of women working in cotton mills, and her reports were influential in the later passing of the Indian Factory Act. She tried to set up a teacher training college for women, without success.
 
In 1866-70 she made three working visits India where she visited girls' schools, prisons and mental asylums to see the conditions there, and campaigned there for reform of child marriage, meeting and working with [[Florence Nightingale]]. She inspected the condition of women working in cotton mills, and her reports were influential in the later passing of the Indian Factory Act. She tried to set up a teacher training college for women, without success.
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