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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations and Tables viii
4. Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. Abbreviations xiii
7. Introduction Protestant Dissent and Philanthropy in Britain, 1660–c.1920 1
8. 1 Dissent and Charity, 1660–1720 27
9. 2 Dissenters and Charity Sermons, c. 1700 to 1750 43
10. 3 John Howard, Dissent and the Early Years of Philanthropy in Britain 60
11. 4 Rational Philanthropy: Theory and Practice in the Emergence of British Unitarianism, c. 1750–1820 78
12. 5 David Nasmith (1799–1839), Philanthropy Expressed as Campaigning 95
13. 6 Building Philanthropy: The Example of Joshua Wilson (1795–1874) 113
14. 7 Funding Faith: Early Victorian Wesleyan Philanthropy 129
15. 8 Unitarians and Philanthropy After 1844: the Formation of a Denominational Identity 152
16. 9 Children and Orphans: Some Nonconformist Responses to the Vulnerable in Victorian Britain 169
17. 10 The Rowntree Family and the Evolution of Quaker Philanthropy, c. 1880 to c. 1920 187
18. 11 ‘Not slothful in business’: Enriqueta Rylands and the John Rylands Library 205
19. Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources 223
20. Index 231