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Material setting and reform experience in English institutions for fallen women, 1838-1910 : inside the 'Homes of Mercy' / Susan Woodall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woodall, Susan, author.
- Series:
- Genders and sexualities in history
- Genders and Sexualities in History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reformatories for women--England--History--19th century.
- Reformatories for women.
- Women--Conduct of life--History--19th century.
- Women.
- Women--Institutional care--England--History--19th century.
- England--Moral conditions--History--19th century.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (323 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Series Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- List of Charts
- List of Tables
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Glorified or Demonised? Rethinking Victorian Institutions
- Objects, Spaces and Feelings
- Religious Experience, Resilience and Agency
- The Case Study Institutions
- Sources
- The Structure of This Book
- Chapter 2: Mission, Critique and Development
- Part I: Printed Matter, Message and Professionalisation
- The Word on the Street
- Part II Critique, Inspection and Development
- 'A Rallying Point': The Magdalen's Friend and Improving Practice
- Domesticity and Discipline
- Chapter 3: 'A Chaste and Pleasing Elevation': Making Moral Spaces
- The Limits of Space
- Chaste Elevations: Building Style and Moral Meaning
- Visibility and Reception
- Expanding and Reinventing Spaces
- Chapter 4: Crossing the Threshold
- Admission: Trials of Scrutiny
- Experiencing Probation
- Rituals of Taking Off and Taking On
- Chapter 5: Too Bad for Anything Better?
- Material Values
- Authority: The Materiality of Status
- Laundry Spaces: 'Stir and Zest'
- Workrooms
- Dining Rooms
- Kitchens
- Chapter 6: Material Religion
- 'Mere Hiding Places of Evil'
- Sacred Objects in Sacred Spaces
- Encountering the Word
- Learning the Word
- Chapter 7: 'Short' Homes, Afterlives and Material Continuities
- Prospects
- Material Continuities
- Afterlives
- Chapter 8: Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Manuscript Primary Sources
- Barnardo's Archive
- Berkshire Record Office
- Community of St John the Baptist, Clewer
- British Library
- Cambridgeshire Archives
- Cambridge Female Refuge
- Cambridgeshire Collection, Cambridge Central Library
- Cambridge University Library
- Essex Record Office
- Lambeth Palace Library
- Lincolnshire Archives
- Lincoln Central Library
- London Metropolitan Archives
- Museum of Cambridge
- Norfolk Record Office
- Norwich City Mission
- Suffolk Record Office
- Trinity College Cambridge
- Printed Primary Sources
- Parliamentary Papers and Official Sources
- Directories
- Household Manuals
- Church Ornament, Furniture and Design Catalogues
- Articles, Memoirs, Pamphlets, Papers and Tracts
- Newspapers and Periodicals
- Periodicals and Rescue Literature
- Parliamentary Papers
- Secondary Sources
- Reference Works
- Websites
- Index
- Notes:
- 1. Introduction.2. Mission, Critique and Development.3. A Chaste and Pleasing Elevation': Making Moral Spaces.4. Crossing the Threshold.5. Too Bad for Anything Better?.6. Material Religion.7. 'Short' Homes, Afterlives and Material Continuities.8. Conclusion.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel W. Golden Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 3031405714
- 9783031405716
- Publisher Number:
- 99996080140
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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