Introduction

Biography

Bache was brought up at Wor­ces­ter by re­la­tives named Laugh­er, mem­bers of Tho­mas Bel­sham’s con­gre­ga­tion. She was a niece of Rev­er­end Ti­mo­thy Laugh­er, of Hack­ney, and cou­sin to Jo­shua Tilt Bache.

She moved to Birm­ing­ham be­fore 1791, for she had at­tend­ed the min­is­try of Jo­seph Priest­ley. For ma­ny years she kept the Is­ling­ton School, in con­junc­tion with a half-sis­ter, Miss Penn. Anoth­er half-sis­ter, An­na Penn, mar­ried the Rev­er­end Lant Car­pen­ter, who pub­lished her hymn in 1812.