Slum Travelers: Ladies and London Poverty, 1860-1920

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Slum Travelers

Ladies and London Poverty, 1860-1920

Edited by: Ellen Ross

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2007

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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, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Beatrice Webb (then Potter), to the obscure. The collection reclaims an important group of writers whose representations of urban poverty have been eclipsed by better-known male authors such as Charles Dickens and Jack London.

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Ross Ellen :

Ellen Ross is Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey. She is the author of Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London (1993) and many articles on London and women’s history.

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History Regional and National History Europe General European History

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xxi
Introduction: Adventures Among The Poor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. “Sketch Of Life In Buildings,” 1889 “A Lady Resident” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
2. “White Slavery In London,” 1888 Annie (Wood) Besant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3. From Makers Of Our Clothes, 1909 Clementina Black And Adele (Lady Carl) Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
4. “Marriage In East London,” 1895 Helen (Dendy) Bosanquet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
5. From Munition Lasses, 1917 Agnes Kate Foxwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
6. “A School Settlement,” 1911 Clara Ellen Grant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
7. “Barmaids,” 1889 Margaret Harkness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
8. “In A London Tramp Ward,” 1906 Mary (Kingsland) Higgs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
9. “The Fur-Pullers Of South London,” 1897 Edith (Mrs. F. G.) Hogg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
10. From A London Plane-Tree, And Other Verse, 1889 Amy Levy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
11. “A Slum Mother” (1908) And “Guy And The Stars” (1919) Margaret Mcmillan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
12. “Gilding The Gutter,” 1905 Olive Christian Malvery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
13. “The Irresponsibility Of The Father,” 1918 Anna Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
14. “Eating The Apple,” 1899 Honnor Morten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
15. “The Evacuation Of The Workhouse,” 1918 Margaret Wynne Nevinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
16. Selections From The Woman’S Dreadnought, 1916–1917 Sylvia Pankhurst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
17. From The Pudding Lady, 1910 Florence Petty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
18. Selections From The Missing Link Magazine, 1878 Ellen Henrietta Ranyard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
19. Selections From Round About A Pound A Week, 1913 Maud Pember Reeves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
20. “Drunkenness,” 1878 Maude Alethea Stanley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
21. From London Street Arabs, 1890 Dorothy Tennant (Lady Stanley) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
22. “Petticoat-Lane,” 1895 Ethel Brilliana (Mrs. Alec) Tweedie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
23. “An Epiphany Pilgrimage,” 1906 Kate Warburton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
24. “Pages From A Work-Girl’S Diary,” 1888 Beatrice (Potter) Webb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
Appendix 1: The Geography Of London Wealth And Poverty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Appendix 2: The Texts Arranged Thematically Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Glossary Of Terms, Institutions, And Organizations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305

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