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Title:

Slum travelers : ladies and London poverty, 1860-1920 / edited with introductions by Ellen Ross.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xxi, 319 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Women social reformers--London--London--History.
Women social reformers--London--London--Biography.
Women in charitable work--London--London--History.
Poor--History.--London--London--History.
Social problems--London--London--History.
London (England)--Social conditions--19th century.
London (England)--Social conditions--20th century.
Anthologie.
Erlebnisbericht.
Geschichte 1860-1920.
Armut.
Frau.
London.

Other Authors:

Ross, Ellen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Adventures among the poor -- Sketch of life in buildings (1889) / A lady resident -- White slavery in London (1888) / Annie (Wood) Besant -- From Makers of our clothes (1909) / Clementina Black and Adele (Lady Carl) Meyer -- Marriage in East London (1895) / Helen (Dendy) Bosanquet -- From Munition lasses (1917) / Agnes Kate Foxwell -- A school settlement (1911) / Clara Ellen Grant -- Barmaids (1889) / Margaret Harkness -- In a London tramp ward (1906) / Mary (Kingsland) Higgs -- The fur-pullers of South London (1897) / Edith (Mrs. F.G.) Hogg -- From A London plane-tree, and other verse (1889) / Amy Levy -- A slum mother, and, Guy and the stars (1919) / Margaret McMillan -- Gilding the gutter (1905) / Olive Christian Malvery -- The irresponsibility of the father (1918) / Anna Martin -- Eating the apple (1899) / Honnor Morten -- The evacuation of the workhouse (1918) / Margaret Wynne Nevison -- Selections from The woman's dreadnought (1916-1917) / Sylvia Pankhurst -- From The pudding lady (1910) / Florence Petty -- Selections from The missing link magazine (1878) / Ellen Henrietta Ranyard -- Selections from Round about a pound a week (1913) / Maud Pember Reeves -- Drunkenness (1878) / Maude Alethea Stanley -- From London street Arabs (1890) / Dorothy Tennant (Lady Stanley) -- Petticoat Lane (1895) / Ethel Brilliana (Mrs. Alec) Tweedie -- An epiphany pilgrimage (1906) / Kate Warburton -- 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.

ISBN:

0520249062 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520249066 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520249054 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520249059 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)75087959

LCCN:

2006036218

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)