From the abolition of the slave trade to the building of the People’s Palace for East London, social causes are inextricably intertwined with the charitable giving and philanthropic impulses on which they rely for tangible support. This volume focuses on individuals who, unlike those documented in volume two, did not have significant financial resources but were nevertheless leading figures in the philanthropic landscape, such as Walter Besant or Edmund Hay Currie. It also focuses on efforts that were not strictly about providing services or support but in advocating for social change as well.
This volume focuses on individuals who, unlike those documented in volume two, did not have significant financial resources but were nevertheless leading figures in the philanthropic landscape. It also focuses on efforts that were not strictly about providing services or support but in advocating for social change as well.
Volume IV: Philanthropy, Charity and Social Activism
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General Introduction
Volume IV Introduction: Philanthropy, Charity and Social Activism
Part 1: Poverty, Charity and Poor Law Reform
1. Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it affects the
future Improvement of Society, with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr.
Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers
2. Jeremy Bentham, Outline of a Work Entitled Pauper Management Improved
3. Patrick Colquhoun, A Treatise on Indigence; Exhibiting a General View of
the National Resources for Productive Labour
4. George Rose, Observations on the Poor Laws, and on the Management of the
Poor
5. J. H. Stallard, Pauperism, Charity, & Poor Laws: Being an Inquiry into the
Present State of the Poorer Classes in the Metropolis, the Resources and
Effects of Charity, and the Influence of the Poor Law System of Relief: with
Suggestions for an Improved Administration
6. Sidney and Beatrice Webb, English Poor Law Policy
Part 2: Charity, Philanthropy and Advocacy
7. Thomas Carlyle, Model Prisons
8. Richard Dawes, The Evils of Indiscriminate Charity, and of a Careless
Administration of Funds Left for Charitable Purposes
9. Standish Grove Grady, What the Rich are Doing for the Poor
10. Octavia Hill, The Importance of Aiding the Poor without Almsgiving
11. Samuel Smiles, Riches and Charity
12. C. S. Loch, How to Help Cases of Distress: A Handy Reference Book for
Almoners and Others
13. Ernest Belfort Bax, The Natural History of the Nonconformist Conscience
14. B. Kirkman Gray, Philanthropists and Politicians
Part 3: Charity, Philanthropy and Social Change
15. Henry Roberts, On the Essentials of a Healthy Dwelling
16. George Sims, How the Poor Live
17. S. F. Swift, In the Slums: An Account of Salvation Army Welfare in the
Dark Courts and Alleys of Modern Babylon and Other Great Cities
18. Types of Workers: No. 1 The Match Factory Lass
19. R. G. Bulkeley, Purity: An Address to Men
20. The Pioneer: Being the Organ of the Social Purity Alliance & the Moral
Reform Union
21. Matthew Arnold, General Report for the Year 1882 in Board of Education,
Reports on Elementary Schools
22. J. Reid Howatt, Then and Now: A Sketch of 50 Years Work by the Ragged
School Union
23. Florence Davenport-Hill, The Workhouse as Home and School
24. Countess Compton, Womens Work in the Ragged Schools
25. Octavia Hill, Our Common Land (And Other Short Essays)
26. Annual Report of the Birmingham and Midland Freedmens Aid Association
27. Royal Commission on University Education in London, Appendix to the
Second Report of the Commissioners. Minutes of Evidence (June 1910-November
1910)
Part 4: Woman: Missionary of Industry, Angel Out of the House
28. 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 friends of the Rising Generation
29. Miss E. S. Lidgett, The Work of Women as Guardians of the Poor
30. Mary H. Steer, Rescue Work by Women Among Women
31. Ellice Hopkins, Appendix, Work Among the Lost
32. The Womens Settlements of London: Their Origin and Work
33. Angela Burdett-Coutts, Woman: The Missionary of Industry
34. Josephine Butler, Womans Work and Womans Culture: A Series of Essays
Index
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 Morleys "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).