Slum travelers [[electronic resource] ] : ladies and London poverty, 1860-1920 / / edited with introductions by Ellen Ross

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.5/5740922421
• Soggetto topico: Women social reformers - England - London - History; Women social reformers - England - London; Women in charitable work - England - London - History; Poor - Services for - England - London - History; Social problems - England - London - History
• Soggetto geografico: London (England) Social conditions 19th century; London (England) Social conditions 20th century
• Soggetto non controllato: annie besant; anthology; anthropologists; beatrice potter webb; british history; british society; british writers; class differences; discussion books; england; english ladies; europe; gender norms; gender studies; great britain; historians; historical; late 19th century; london slums; london; lower classes; philanthropists; philanthropy; poor; poverty relief; poverty; slum life; sylvia pankhurst; urban poverty; wealth and culture; wealth; world war i.; wwi
• Classificazione: HL 1541
• Altri autori: RossEllen
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Adventures Among The Poor -- 1. "Sketch Of Life In Buildings," 1889 "A Lady Resident" -- 2. "White Slavery In London," 1888 Annie (Wood) Besant -- 3. From Makers Of Our Clothes, 1909 Clementina Black And Adele (Lady Carl) Meyer -- 4. "Marriage In East London," 1895 Helen (Dendy) Bosanquet -- 5. From Munition Lasses, 1917 Agnes Kate Foxwell -- 6. "A School Settlement," 1911 Clara Ellen Grant -- 7. "Barmaids," 1889 Margaret Harkness -- 8. "In A London Tramp Ward," 1906 Mary (Kingsland) Higgs -- 9. "The Fur-Pullers Of South London," 1897 Edith (Mrs. F. G.) Hogg -- 10. From A London Plane-Tree, And Other Verse, 1889 Amy Levy -- 11. "A Slum Mother" (1908) And "Guy And The Stars" (1919) Margaret Mcmillan -- 12. "Gilding The Gutter," 1905 Olive Christian Malvery -- 13. "The Irresponsibility Of The Father," 1918 Anna Martin -- 14. "Eating The Apple," 1899 Honnor Morten -- 15. "The Evacuation Of The Workhouse," 1918 Margaret Wynne Nevinson -- 16. Selections From The Woman's Dreadnought, 1916-1917 Sylvia Pankhurst -- 17. From The Pudding Lady, 1910 Florence Petty -- 18. Selections From The Missing Link Magazine, 1878 Ellen Henrietta Ranyard -- 19. Selections From Round About A Pound A Week, 1913 Maud Pember Reeves -- 20. "Drunkenness," 1878 Maude Alethea Stanley -- 21. From London Street Arabs, 1890 Dorothy Tennant (Lady Stanley) -- 22. "Petticoat-Lane," 1895 Ethel Brilliana (Mrs. Alec) Tweedie -- 23. "An Epiphany Pilgrimage," 1906 Kate Warburton -- 24. "Pages From A Work-Girl'S Diary," 1888 Beatrice (Potter) Webb -- Appendix 1: The Geography Of London Wealth And Poverty -- Appendix 2: The Texts Arranged Thematically -- Glossary Of Terms, Institutions, And Organizations -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 1890's 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Slum travelers
• ISBN: 1-282-35862-6; 9786612358623; 0-520-94005-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780638003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II