Slum Travelers : Ladies and London Poverty, 1860-1920.

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Ross, Ellen

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (345 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520940055
0520940059
1282358626
9781282358621
9780520249059
0520249054
9780520249066
0520249062
9786612358623
6612358629

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Slum Travelers : Ladies and London Poverty, 1860-1920.DDC classification:

362.5574094

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HQ1600

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HL 1541

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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, annotated, and with a superb introduction by Ellen Ross, collects a fascinating array of the writings of these "lady explorers," who were active in the east, south, and central London slums from around 1870 until the end of World War I. Contributors range from the well known, including Annie Besant, Sylv.

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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.

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, annotated, and with a superb introduction by Ellen Ross, collects a fascinating array of the writings of these "lady explorers," who were active in the east, south, and central London slums from around 1870 until the end of World War I. Contributors range from the well known, including Annie Besant, Sylv.