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

Rövid leírás:

From newsletters and magazines to bazaars and dinners to festivals and concerts, charities and philanthropic enterprises competed among one another to obtain financial support for their causes and to justify their expenditures. Richly illustrated, this volume documents the business of charity and philanthropy.

Hosszú leírás:

From newsletters and magazines to bazaars and dinners to festivals and concerts, charities and philanthropic enterprises competed among one another to obtain financial support for their causes, justify their expenditures and, to borrow a phrase from a recent historical study, "monetize compassion." Richly illustrated, this volume documents the business of charity and philanthropy.

Tartalomjegyzék:

Volume V: The Business of Charity and Philanthropy

List of Illustrations

General Introduction

Volume V Introduction: The Business of Charity and Philanthropy

Part 1: Administration and Management

1. Report from His Majesty’s Commissioners for Inquiring into the Administration and Practical  Operations of the Poor Laws

2. Rules and Regulations of the British Orphan Asylum, Kingsland, for the Board, Clothing, and Education of Fatherless Children and Destitute Orphans, from the Age of Seven to Fourteen Years, Who Have Not Received Parochial Assistance, and Whose Parents Have Moved in the Middle and Respectable Walks of Society; and a List of the Subscribers, Placed in the Districts in Which They Vote

3. Rules and Regulations of the Governesses’ Benevolent Institution

4. Laws, Ministers’ Benevolent Society: Report of the Sixth Annual Meeting, Held in Birmingham, October 27, 1868

5. National Temperance Society Report: Eleventh Annual Report

6. Friends in Need: Some Papers Read at a Conference of Ladies’ Associations for the Care of Friendless Girls, Held at Barnsley, April 3^rd and 4^th, 1889

7. R. W. Hartshorn, Registry for Destitute Boys; Promoting Education and Employment

8. Thomas Hawksley, The Charities of London & Some Errors of their Administration: With Suggestions for an Improved System of Private and Official Charitable Relief

9. William Banting, Letter in Defence of the Present System of Electing Candidates at Public  Institutions

10. Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood

11. T. W. Fowle, The Poor Law

12. Charles Stewart Loch, The Future of Charity

13. Richard Edmund Mitcheson, Charitable Trusts: The Jurisdiction of the Charity Commission

14. Charles Dickens, Telescopic Philanthropy

15. Louisa Hubbard, Statistics of Women’s Work

Part 2: Raising Money

16. London Orphan Asylum Annual Report

17. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London. Written in Rome

18. Robert Browning, The Twins: “Give” and “It-Shall-Be-Given-Unto-You”’

19. [Anon.], The Ragged School Teacher’s Appeal to All Classes

20. Second Annual Report of the Catholic Poor School Committee of Birmingham

21. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point

22. Eliza Grove, A Beam for Mental Darkness

23. B. Conybeare, Friendless Meg

24. The Dens of London: Forty Years’ Mission Work Among the Outcast Poor of London

25. The Work of the Midland Deaf and Dumb Institution

26. Royal Literary Fund. Report of the Anniversary

27. Children of the Street: The Need of a Waifs’ Home

28. Personal Notes

29. Anna Wilkes, Rescue Work in East London

30. The Child Derelicts of the Street

Index