03917nam 2200781 450 991078798860332120230226050921.01-4426-9354-11-4426-6558-010.3138/9781442665583(CKB)2670000000545795(EBL)3291121(SSID)ssj0001130248(PQKBManifestationID)12483366(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001130248(PQKBWorkID)11085811(PQKB)10324392(CEL)447177(OCoLC)872600992(CaBNVSL)slc00234018(MiAaPQ)EBC3291121(MiAaPQ)EBC4669941(DE-B1597)465435(OCoLC)870314277(DE-B1597)9781442665583(Au-PeEL)EBL4669941(CaPaEBR)ebr11256455(MdBmJHUP)musev2_106379(EXLCZ)99267000000054579520160913h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPhilanthropy and the construction of Victorian women's citizenship Lady Frederick Cavendish and Miss Emma Cons /Andrea Geddes PooleToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2014.©20141 online resource (308 p.)1-4426-4231-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Lucy Cavendish -- Circumventing the Bishops: women's philanthropy and the Church of England -- Emma Cons -- Opera for Lambeth -- The citizens of Morley College -- Philanthropy and citizenship -- Conclusion."British social reformers Emma Cons (1838 -1911) and Lucy Cavendish (1841-1924) broke new ground in their efforts to better the lot of the working poor in London: they hoped to transform these people's lives through great art, music, high culture, and elite knowledge. Although they did not recognize it as such, their work was in many ways an affirmation and display of citizenship. This book uses Cons's and Cavendish's partnership and work as an illuminating point of departure for exploring the larger topic of women's philanthropic campaigns in late Victorian and Edwardian society. Andrea Geddes Poole demonstrates that, beginning in the late 1860s, a shift was occurring from an emphasis on charity as a private, personal act of women's virtuous duty to public philanthropy as evidence of citizenly, civic participation. She shows that, through philanthropic works, women were able to construct a separate public sphere through which they could speak directly to each other about how to affect matters of significant public policy -- decades before women were finally granted the right to vote."--Publisher's websiteWomen in charitable workGreat BritainHistory19th centuryWomenGreat BritainSocial conditions19th centuryCitizenshipSocial aspectsGreat BritainHistory19th centurySocial reformersGreat BritainBiographyWomen philanthropistsGreat BritainBiographyGreat BritainfastBiographies.History.Biographies.BiographyElectronic books. Women in charitable workHistoryWomenSocial conditionsCitizenshipSocial aspectsHistorySocial reformersWomen philanthropists361.7092/52094209034Geddes Poole Andrea1959-1511262MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787988603321Philanthropy and the construction of Victorian women's citizenship3808630UNINA