Charity and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Morrison, Kevin A.;

Short description:

This volume focuses on individuals who, unlike those documented in volume two, did not have significant financial resources but were nevertheless leading figures in the philanthropic landscape. It also focuses on efforts that were not strictly about providing services or support but in advocating for social change as well.

Long description:

From the abolition of the slave trade to the building of the People’s Palace for East London, social causes are inextricably intertwined with the charitable giving and philanthropic impulses on which they rely for tangible support. This volume focuses on individuals who, unlike those documented in volume two, did not have significant financial resources but were nevertheless leading figures in the philanthropic landscape, such as Walter Besant or Edmund Hay Currie. It also focuses on efforts that were not strictly about providing services or support but in advocating for social change as well.

Table of Contents:

Volume IV: Philanthropy, Charity and Social Activism

List of Illustrations

General Introduction

Volume IV Introduction: Philanthropy, Charity and Social Activism

Part 1: Poverty, Charity and Poor Law Reform

1. Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it affects the future Improvement of Society, with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers

2. Jeremy Bentham, Outline of a Work Entitled Pauper Management Improved

3. Patrick Colquhoun, A Treatise on Indigence; Exhibiting a General View of the National Resources for Productive Labour

4. George Rose, Observations on the Poor Laws, and on the Management of the Poor

5. J. H. Stallard, Pauperism, Charity, & Poor Laws: Being an Inquiry into the Present State of the Poorer Classes in the Metropolis, the Resources and Effects of Charity, and the Influence of the Poor Law System of Relief: with Suggestions for an Improved Administration

6. Sidney and Beatrice Webb, English Poor Law Policy

Part 2: Charity, Philanthropy and Advocacy

7. Thomas Carlyle, Model Prisons

8. Richard Dawes, The Evils of Indiscriminate Charity, and of a Careless Administration of Funds Left for Charitable Purposes

9. Standish Grove Grady, What the Rich are Doing for the Poor

10. Octavia Hill, The Importance of Aiding the Poor without Almsgiving

11. Samuel Smiles, Riches and Charity

12. C. S. Loch, How to Help Cases of Distress: A Handy Reference Book for Almoners and Others

13. Ernest Belfort Bax, The Natural History of the Nonconformist Conscience

14. B. Kirkman Gray, Philanthropists and Politicians

Part 3: Charity, Philanthropy and Social Change

15. Henry Roberts, On the Essentials of a Healthy Dwelling

16. George Sims, How the Poor Live

17. S. F. Swift, In the Slums: An Account of Salvation Army Welfare in the Dark Courts and Alleys of Modern Babylon and Other Great Cities

18. Types of Workers: No. 1 The Match Factory Lass

19. R. G. Bulkeley, “Purity”: An Address to Men

20. The Pioneer: Being the Organ of the Social Purity Alliance & the Moral Reform Union

21. Matthew Arnold, General Report for the Year 1882’ in Board of Education, Reports on Elementary Schools

22. J. Reid Howatt, Then and Now: A Sketch of 50 Years’ Work by the Ragged School Union

23. Florence Davenport-Hill, The Workhouse as Home and School

24. Countess Compton, Women’s Work in the Ragged Schools

25. Octavia Hill, Our Common Land (And Other Short Essays)

26. Annual Report of the Birmingham and Midland Freedmen’s Aid Association

27. Royal Commission on University Education in London, Appendix to the Second Report of the Commissioners. Minutes of Evidence (June 1910-November 1910)

Part 4: Woman: Missionary of Industry, Angel Out of the House

28. 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 friends of the Rising Generation

29. Miss E. S. Lidgett, The Work of Women as Guardians of the Poor

30. Mary H. Steer, Rescue Work by Women Among Women

31. Ellice Hopkins, Appendix, Work Among the Lost

32. The Women’s Settlements of London: Their Origin and Work

33. Angela Burdett-Coutts, Woman: The Missionary of Industry

34. Josephine Butler, Woman’s Work and Woman’s Culture: A Series of Essays

Index