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.
Throughout the nineteenth-century, charitable 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.
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 Teachers 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 Womans Friendly Society
12. Articles, Rules, &c. of a Friendly Society, held at W. Doxfords, 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, Childrens 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
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).