Slum Travelers : Ladies and London Poverty, 1860-1920.
Late-nineteenth-century Britain saw the privileged classes forsake society balls and gatherings to turn their considerable resources to investigating and relieving poverty. By the 1890s at least half a million women were involved in philanthropy, particularly in London. Slum Travelers, edited, annot...
| Основен автор: | Ross, Ellen. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2007.
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Slum Travelers : Ladies and London Poverty, 1860-1920. |
Съдържание:
- Cover; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; MAP OF LONDON IN 1888; INTRODUCTION: Adventures among the Poor; 1. "Sketch of Life in Buildings," 1889: "A LADY RESIDENT"; 2. "White Slavery in London," 1888: ANNIE (WOOD) BESANT; 3. From Makers of Our Clothes, 1909: CLEMENTINA BLACK AND ADELE (LADY CARL) MEYER; 4. "Marriage in East London," 1895: HELEN (DENDY) BOSANQUET; 5. From Munition Lasses, 1917: AGNES KATE FOXWELL; 6. "A School Settlement," 1911: CLARA ELLEN GRANT; 7. "Barmaids," 1889: MARGARET HARKNESS.
- 8. "In a London Tramp Ward," 1906: MARY (KINGSLAND) HIGGS9. "The Fur-Pullers of South London," 1897: EDITH (MRS. F.G.) HOGG; 10. From A London Plane-Tree, and Other Verse, 1889: AMY LEVY; 11. "A Slum Mother" (1908) and "Guy and the Stars" (1919): MARGARET MCMILLAN; 12. "Gilding the Gutter," 1905: OLIVE CHRISTIAN MALVERY; 13. "The Irresponsibility of the Father," 1918: ANNA MARTIN; 14. "Eating the Apple," 1899: HONNOR MORTEN; 15. "The Evacuation of the Workhouse," 1918: MARGARET WYNNE NEVINSON; 16. Selections from The Woman's Dreadnought, 1916-1917: SYLVIA PANKHURST.
- 17. From The Pudding Lady, 1910: FLORENCE PETTY18. Selections from The Missing Link Magazine, 1878: ELLEN HENRIETTA RANYARD; 19. Selections from Round about a Pound a Week, 1913: MAUD PEMBER REEVES; 20. "Drunkenness," 1878: MAUDE ALETHEA STANLEY; 21. From London Street Arabs, 1890: DOROTHY TENNANT (LADY STANLEY); 22. "Petticoat-Lane," 1895: ETHEL BRILLIANA (MRS. ALEC) TWEEDIE; 23. "An Epiphany Pilgrimage," 1906: KATE WARBURTON; 24. "Pages from a Work-Girl's Diary," 1888: BEATRICE (POTTER) WEBB; APPENDIX 1: The Geography of London Wealth and Poverty; APPENDIX 2: The Texts Arranged Thematically.
- Glossary of terms, institutions, and organizationsa; b; c; d; e; f; g; h; i; l; m; n; o; p; s; t; w; index; a; b; c; d; e; f; g; h; i; j; k; l; m; n; o; p; q; r; s; t; u; v; w; y.