Author: Charity Organisation Society LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Victorian Philanthropy and Social Problems
Author: Charity Organisation Society LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Victorian Philanthropy and Social Problems
Author: Ragged School UnionVictorian Philanthropy and Social Problems
Author: Charity Organisation SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Victorian Philanthropy and Social Problems
Author: Ragged School UnionVictorian Philanthropy and Social Problems
Author: Ragged School UnionPhilanthropy in Victorian Scotland
Author: Olive ChecklandPublisher: John Donald
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-century England
Author: F. K. ProchaskaPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198226276
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England
Charity Rediscovered
Author: Margaret B. SimeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This is a reprint of a classic study which describes in a readable and graphic fashion the severe social problems of the Victorian era and the response, in particular, of the provincial middle classes to the turbulent society about them. The book is an exceptionally interesting introduction to the history of voluntary services in Great Britain and to the origins of modern ideas of social welfare and responsibility. "a little classic of absorbing interest... which deserves to be read not only by students of Liverpool’s history, but by all who are interested in the nineteenth century."—Public Administration "... a book of charm and importance..."—The Guardian "... a valuable contribution to social history... an absorbingly interesting book."—Times Literary Supplement
Charity and Condescension
Author: Daniel SiegelPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821444077
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Charity and Condescension explores how condescension, a traditional English virtue, went sour in the nineteenth century, and considers how the failure of condescension influenced Victorian efforts to reform philanthropy and to construct new narrative models of social conciliation. In the literary work of authors like Dickens, Eliot, and Tennyson, and in the writing of reformers like Octavia Hill and Samuel Barnett, condescension—once a sign of the power and value of charity—became an emblem of charity’s limitations. This book argues that, despite Victorian charity’s reputation for idealistic self-assurance, it frequently doubted its own operations and was driven by creative self-critique. Through sophisticated and original close readings of important Victorian texts, Daniel Siegel shows how these important ideas developed even as England struggled to deal with its growing underclass and an expanding notion of the state’s responsibility to its poor.
Victorians and the Case for Charity
Author: Marilyn D. ButtonPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786470321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This collection of all new essays seeks to answer a series of questions surrounding the Victorian response to poverty in Britain. In short, what did various layers of society say the poor deserved and what did they do to help them? The work is organized against the backdrop of the 1834 New Poor Laws, recognizing that poverty garnered considerable attention in England because of its pervasive and painful presence. Each essay examines a different initiative to help the poor. Taking an historical tack, the essayists begin with the royal perspective and move into the responses of Church of England members, Evangelicals, and Roman Catholics; the social engagement of the literati is discussed as well. This collection reflects the real, monetary, spiritual and emotional investments of individuals, public institutions, private charities, and religious groups who struggled to address the needs of the poor.