Slum Travelers Ladies and London Poverty, 1860-1920

Name: Slum Travelers Ladies and London Poverty, 1860-1920
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ISBN: 9780520249066

ISBN-10: 0520249062

ISBN-13: 9780520249066

Edition: 2008

Authors: Ellen Ross

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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 1890s 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…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/26/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.89" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Ellen Ross is Professor of History and Women's Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey. She is the author of Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London (1993) and many articles on London and women's history.



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Map of London in 1888


Introduction: Adventures among the Poor


"Sketch of Life in Buildings," 1889: "A Lady Resident"


"White Slavery in London," 1888


From Makers of Our Clothes, 1909


"Marriage in East London," 1895


From Munition Lasses, 1917


"A School Settlement," 1911


"Barmaids," 1889


"In a London Tramp Ward," 1906


"The Fur-Pullers of South London," 1897


From A London Plane-Tree, and Other Verse, 1889


"A Slum Mother" (1908) and "Guy and the Stars" (1919)


"Gilding the Gutter," 1905


"The Irresponsibility of the Father," 1918


"Eating the Apple," 1899


"The Evacuation of the Workhouse," 1918


Selections from The Woman's Dreadnought, 1916-1917


From The Pudding Lady, 1910


Selections from The Missing Link Magazine, 1878


Selections from Round about a Pound a Week, 1913


"Drunkenness," 1878


From London Street Arabs, 1890


"Petticoat-Lane," 1895


"An Epiphany Pilgrimage," 1906


"Pages from a Work-Girl's Diary," 1888


The Geography of London Wealth and Poverty


The Texts Arranged Thematically


Glossary of Terms, Institutions, and Organizations


Index