Slum travelers : ladies and London poverty, 1860-1920 / edited with introductions by Ellen Ross.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Ross, Ellen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Women social reformers--England--London--History.
• Women social reformers--England--London--Biography.
• Women in charitable work--England--London--History.
• Poor--Services for--England--London--History.
• Social problems--England--London--History.
• Social problems.
• History.
• Poor--Services for.
• Women in charitable work.
• Women social reformers.
• London (England)--Social conditions--19th century.
• London (England)--Social conditions--20th century.
• England--London.

Genre:

• Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxi, 319 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

• Map of London in 1888 xxiii
• Introduction: Adventures among the Poor 1
• 1 "Sketch of Life in Buildings," 1889: "A Lady Resident" 40
• 2 "White Slavery in London," 1888 / Annie (Wood) Besant 45
• 3 From Makers of Our Clothes, 1909 / Clementina Black, Adele (Lady Carl) Meyer 52
• 4 "Marriage in East London," 1895 / Helen (Dendy) Bosanquet 64
• 5 From Munition Lasses, 1917 / Agnes Kate Foxwell 72
• 6 "A School Settlement," 1911 / Clara Ellen Grant 81
• 7 "Barmaids," 1889 / Margaret Harkness 89
• 8 "In a London Tramp Ward," 1906 / Mary (Kingsland) Higgs 97
• 9 "The Fur-Pullers of South London," 1897 / Edith (Mrs. F.G.) Hogg 104
• 10 From A London Plane-Tree, and Other Verse, 1889 / Amy Levy 117
• 11 "A Slum Mother" (1908) and "Guy and the Stars" (1919) / Margaret McMillan 124
• 12 "Gilding the Gutter," 1905 / Olive Christian Malvery 136
• 13 "The Irresponsibility of the Father," 1918 / Anna Martin 148
• 14 "Eating the Apple," 1899 / Honnor Morten 161
• 15 "The Evacuation of the Workhouse," 1918 / Margaret Wynne Nevinson 172
• 16 Selections from The Woman's Dreadnought, 1916-1917 / Sylvia Pankhurst 178
• 17 From The Pudding Lady, 1910 / Florence Petty 192
• 18 Selections from The Missing Link Magazine, 1878 / Ellen Henrietta Ranyard 198
• 19 Selections from Round about a Pound a Week, 1913 / Maud Pember Reeves 208
• 20 "Drunkenness," 1878 / Maude Alethea Stanley 226
• 21 From London Street Arabs, 1890 / Dorothy Tennant (Lady Stanley) 239
• 22 "Petticoat-Lane," 1895 / Ethel Brilliana (Mrs. Alec) Tweedie 249
• 23 "An Epiphany Pilgrimage," 1906 / Kate Warburton 256
• 24 "Pages from a Work-Girl's Diary," 1888 / Beatrice (Potter) Webb 262
• Appendix 1 The Geography of London Wealth and Poverty 281
• Appendix 2 The Texts Arranged Thematically 287.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780520249059
• 0520249054
• 9780520249066
• 0520249062

OCLC:

75087959