1st Edition

Charity and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Britain Volume IV: Philanthropy, Charity, and Social Activism

Edited By Kevin A. Morrison Copyright 2025
514 Pages
by Routledge

514 Pages
by Routledge

From the abolition of the slave trade to the building of the People’s Palace for East London, social causes are inextricably intertwined with the charitable giving and philanthropic impulses on which they rely for tangible support. This volume focuses on individuals who, unlike those documented in volume two, did not have significant financial resources but were nevertheless leading figures in... Read more

Volume IV: Philanthropy, Charity and Social Activism

List of Illustrations

General Introduction

Volume IV Introduction: Philanthropy, Charity and Social Activism

 

Part 1: Poverty, Charity and Poor Law Reform

1. Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it affects the future Improvement of Society, with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers

 

2. Jeremy Bentham, Outline of a Work Entitled Pauper Management Improved

 

3. Patrick Colquhoun, A Treatise on Indigence; Exhibiting a General View of the National Resources for Productive Labour

 

4. George Rose, Observations on the Poor Laws, and on the Management of the Poor

 

5. J. H. Stallard, Pauperism, Charity, & Poor Laws: Being an Inquiry into the Present State of the Poorer Classes in the Metropolis, the Resources and Effects of Charity, and the Influence of the Poor Law System of Relief: with Suggestions for an Improved Administration

 

6. Sidney and Beatrice Webb, English Poor Law Policy

 

Part 2: Charity, Philanthropy and Advocacy

7. Thomas Carlyle, Model Prisons

 

8. Richard Dawes, The Evils of Indiscriminate Charity, and of a Careless Administration of Funds Left for Charitable Purposes

 

9. Standish Grove Grady, What the Rich are Doing for the Poor

 

10. Octavia Hill, The Importance of Aiding the Poor without Almsgiving

 

11. Samuel Smiles, Riches and Charity

 

12. C. S. Loch, How to Help Cases of Distress: A Handy Reference Book for Almoners and Others

 

13. Ernest Belfort Bax, The Natural History of the Nonconformist Conscience

 

14. B. Kirkman Gray, Philanthropists and Politicians

 

Part 3: Charity, Philanthropy and Social Change

15. Henry Roberts, On the Essentials of a Healthy Dwelling

 

16. George Sims, How the Poor Live

 

17. S. F. Swift, In the Slums: An Account of Salvation Army Welfare in the Dark Courts and Alleys of Modern Babylon and Other Great Cities

 

18. Types of Workers: No. 1 The Match Factory Lass

 

19. R. G. Bulkeley, “Purity”: An Address to Men

 

20. The Pioneer: Being the Organ of the Social Purity Alliance & the Moral Reform Union

 

21. Matthew Arnold, General Report for the Year 1882’ in Board of Education, Reports on Elementary Schools

 

22. J. Reid Howatt, Then and Now: A Sketch of 50 Years’ Work by the Ragged School Union

 

23. Florence Davenport-Hill, The Workhouse as Home and School

 

24. Countess Compton, Women’s Work in the Ragged Schools

 

25. Octavia Hill, Our Common Land (And Other Short Essays)

 

26. Annual Report of the Birmingham and Midland Freedmen’s Aid Association

 

27. Royal Commission on University Education in London, Appendix to the Second Report of the Commissioners. Minutes of Evidence (June 1910-November 1910)

 

Part 4: Woman: Missionary of Industry, Angel Out of the House

28. Catharine Cappe, Thoughts on Various Charitable and Other Important Institutions, and on the Best Mode of Conducting Them; to which is Subjoined, an Address to the friends of the Rising Generation

 

29. Miss E. S. Lidgett, The Work of Women as Guardians of the Poor

 

30. Mary H. Steer, Rescue Work by Women Among Women

 

31. Ellice Hopkins, Appendix, Work Among the Lost

 

32. The Women’s Settlements of London: Their Origin and Work

 

33. Angela Burdett-Coutts, Woman: The Missionary of Industry

 

34. Josephine Butler, Woman’s Work and Woman’s Culture: A Series of Essays

 

Index

Biography

Kevin A. Morrison is Distinguished Professor of British Literature in the School of Foreign Languages at Henan University. He is the author of Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture: Synergies of Thought and Place (2018), A Micro-History of Victorian Liberal Parenting: John Morley’s "Discreet Indifference" (2018), and Study-Abroad Pedagogy, Dark Tourism, and Historical Reenactment: In the Footsteps of Jack the Ripper and His Victims (2019). He has edited a number of collections including, most recently, Walter Besant: The Business of the Literature and the Pleasures of Reform (2019).