From newsletters and magazines to bazaars and dinners to festivals and concerts, charities and philanthropic enterprises competed among one another to obtain financial support for their causes and to justify their expenditures. Richly illustrated, this volume documents the business of charity and philanthropy.
From newsletters and magazines to bazaars and dinners to festivals and concerts, charities and philanthropic enterprises competed among one another to obtain financial support for their causes, justify their expenditures and, to borrow a phrase from a recent historical study, "monetize compassion." Richly illustrated, this volume documents the business of charity and philanthropy.
Volume V: The Business of Charity and Philanthropy
List of Illustrations
General Introduction
Volume V Introduction: The Business of Charity and Philanthropy
Part 1: Administration and Management
1. Report from His Majestys Commissioners for Inquiring into the
Administration and Practical Operations of the Poor Laws
2. Rules and Regulations of the British Orphan Asylum, Kingsland, for the
Board, Clothing, and Education of Fatherless Children and Destitute Orphans,
from the Age of Seven to Fourteen Years, Who Have Not Received Parochial
Assistance, and Whose Parents Have Moved in the Middle and Respectable Walks
of Society; and a List of the Subscribers, Placed in the Districts in Which
They Vote
3. Rules and Regulations of the Governesses Benevolent Institution
4. Laws, Ministers Benevolent Society: Report of the Sixth Annual Meeting,
Held in Birmingham, October 27, 1868
5. National Temperance Society Report: Eleventh Annual Report
6. Friends in Need: Some Papers Read at a Conference of Ladies Associations
for the Care of Friendless Girls, Held at Barnsley, April 3rd and 4th, 1889
7. R. W. Hartshorn, Registry for Destitute Boys; Promoting Education and
Employment
8. Thomas Hawksley, The Charities of London & Some Errors of their
Administration: With Suggestions for an Improved System of Private and
Official Charitable Relief
9. William Banting, Letter in Defence of the Present System of Electing
Candidates at Public Institutions
10. Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
11. T. W. Fowle, The Poor Law
12. Charles Stewart Loch, The Future of Charity
13. Richard Edmund Mitcheson, Charitable Trusts: The Jurisdiction of the
Charity Commission
14. Charles Dickens, Telescopic Philanthropy
15. Louisa Hubbard, Statistics of Womens Work
Part 2: Raising Money
16. London Orphan Asylum Annual Report
17. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London.
Written in Rome
18. Robert Browning, The Twins: Give and It-Shall-Be-Given-Unto-You
19. [ Anon.], The Ragged School Teachers Appeal to All Classes
20. Second Annual Report of the Catholic Poor School Committee of Birmingham
21. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Runaway Slave at Pilgrims Point
22. Eliza Grove, A Beam for Mental Darkness
23. B. Conybeare, Friendless Meg
24. The Dens of London: Forty Years Mission Work Among the Outcast Poor of
London
25. The Work of the Midland Deaf and Dumb Institution
26. Royal Literary Fund. Report of the Anniversary
27. Children of the Street: The Need of a Waifs Home
28. Personal Notes
29. Anna Wilkes, Rescue Work in East London
30. The Child Derelicts of the Street
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).
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