Charity and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Volume III: Networks and Collaborations

by Kevin A. Morrison (Editor)

Overview

Through contributions of money and time, many individuals made a variety of philanthropic enterprises possible. Just as often, however, benevolent efforts emerged from and were carried out through networks of individuals and public cooperative groups. The materials in this volume introduce readers to various forms and practices of collaborative philanthropy and royal patronage, such as the Governesses’ Benevolent Institution, the Evangelical Party of the Church of England’s Society for the Relief of Distressed Widows, and the British Red Cross.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367520977
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/25/2025
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kevin A. Morrison is Distinguished Professor of British Literature in the School of Foreign Languages at Henan University. He is the author of Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture: Synergies of Thought and Place (2018), A Micro-History of Victorian Liberal Parenting: John Morley’s "Discreet Indifference" (2018), and Study-Abroad Pedagogy, Dark Tourism, and Historical Reenactment: In the Footsteps of Jack the Ripper and His Victims (2019). He has edited a number of collections including, most recently, Walter Besant: The Business of the Literature and the Pleasures of Reform (2019).

Table of Contents

Volume III: Networks and Collaborations

List of Illustrations

General Introduction

Volume III Introduction: Networks and Collaborations

Part 1: Educating the Poor

1. Joseph Lancaster, Initiatory Schools

2. J. A. James, The Sunday School Teacher’s Guide

3. Catharine Cappe, Thoughts on Various Charitable and Other Important Institutions and on the Best Mode of Conducting Them to Which is Subjoined an Address to the Females of the Rising Generation

4. Practical Suggestions: The Work and How to Do It

5. The Ragged School Shoe-Black Society: An Account of its Origins, Operations, and Present Condition

6. Testimony of William Locke, Select Committee on the Education of Destitute Children. Minutes of Evidence

7. The Dens of London: Forty Years’ Mission Work Among the Outcast Poor of London

8. J. Reid Howatt, Then and Now: A Sketch of 50 Years’ Work of the Ragged School Union

9. William Watson, Should I Subscribe to the Industrial School? Reasons for the Education of Pauper Children

10. Mary Carpenter, Reformatory Schools for the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes and for Juvenile Offenders

Part 2: Friendly Societies and Benevolent Institutions

11. Mrs. Edwin Gray, A Woman’s Friendly Society

12. Articles, Rules, &c. of a Friendly Society, held at W. Doxford’s, Wheat Sheaf Inn, West Bolden

13. London Orphan Asylum

14. The Sixth Annual Report of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Widows; Applying Within the First Month of their Widowhood

15. Governesses’ Benevolent Institution. Report for 1846

16. The Metropolitan Reformatories and Refuges: An Authentic Account of Thirty Institutions

17. Charity and Food: Report of the Special Committee of the Charity Organization Society Upon Soup Kitchens, Children’s Breakfasts and Dinners, and Cheap Food Supply

18. All About the Salvation Army

19. William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out

20. Charities Register and Digest; Being a Classified Register of Charities in or Available for the Metropolis, Together with a Digest of Information Respecting the Legal, Voluntary, and Other Means for the Prevention and Relief of Distress and the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor

21. Report by the Central British Red Cross on Voluntary Organizations in and of the Sick and Wounded During the South African War

Part 3: The Visitor and the Friend

22. Catharine Cappe, Thoughts

23. Elizabeth Fry, Observations on Visiting, Superintendence, and Government of Female Prisoners by Elizabeth Fry

24. Extracts from Visitors’ Journals

25. Communications from Visitors: Advantage of District Visiting

26. Susan Porson Hawes, A Few Remarks on District Visiting

27. London District Nurses of the Biblewomen and Nurses Mission Report 1900

28. Mrs F. Jeune [Mary Jeune], Helping the Fallen

Index