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3 unusual facts about Isabella Banks


God's Providence House, Chester

The building features in the novel God's Providence House: A Story of 1791 (1865) by Isabella Banks.

Isabella Banks

Both her father, James and her mother Amelia were active in politics long before the period when the City of Manchester had its own parliamentary representatives; her father held several official civic roles in his lifetime as a town alderman and magistrate.

Isabella Banks, née Varley, was born on 25 March 1821 above her father's pharmacy at 10 Oldham Street, in the area now known as Manchester's Northern Quarter.



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