TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ross,Ellen
TI  - Slum Travelers: Ladies and London Poverty, 1860-1920
SN  - 9780520940055
AV  - HQ1600 
U1  - 362.5574094 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Women social reformers
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - History
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women in charitable work
KW  - Poor
KW  - Services for
KW  - Social problems
KW  - Réformatrices sociales
KW  - Angleterre
KW  - Londres
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Femmes dans les œuvres de bienfaisance
KW  - Pauvres
KW  - Services
KW  - Problèmes sociaux
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Poverty & Homelessness
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - fast
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Armut
KW  - gnd
KW  - Frau
KW  - London (England)
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
KW  - Anthologie
KW  - swd
KW  - Erlebnisbericht
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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