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Victorians and the case for charity : essays on responses to English poverty by the state, the church and the literati /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Button, Marilyn (Editor), Sheetz-Nguyen, Jessica A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
Subjects:
Poverty > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Poor > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Public welfare > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Poor laws > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century.
Great Britain > Social policy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. State response
  • The case for charity: "But if I were you, I should certainly go into the workhouse" / Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen
  • Royal charity and Queen Adelaide in early nineteenth century Britain / Marilyn K. Thomas
  • Lloyd's patriotic fund, 1791-1841: "To the heroes of Trafalgar" / Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen
  • Part II. Anglican response
  • Rhetoric, education and economics as practical theology: Archbishop Richard Whately's Irish policies / Carol Poster
  • Fundraising theology? Anglican charity sermons and nineteenth-century social causes / Keith A. Francis
  • Part III. Literati response
  • "The cry of the children": Elizabeth Barrett's response to child labor in the mines and factories of Victorian Britain / Mary B. McElligott
  • "No friend like a sister": Christina Rossetti's "Awakened conscience" and the fallen woman / RenĂ©e J. Schlueter
  • Part IV. Evangelical response
  • A sisterhood powerful for motherhood: Ellen Ranyard's "biblewomen" and "biblewomen nurses" / Donald M. Lewis
  • Protecting Canterbury's poor: city missions and the Protestant laity / Marilyn D. Button
  • Oxford for factory workers: The People's College of Sheffeld / Angela M. Schwer
  • Part V. Roman Catholic response
  • "Father of the orphan, his helper and his judge": Roman Catholic response to the English poor law system / Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen
  • "Something for the poor": London women religious and social reform in the 1840s / Moira E. Egan
  • Epilogue.