Charity and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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).

• Volume III: Networks and CollaborationsList of IllustrationsGeneral IntroductionVolume III Introduction: Networks and CollaborationsPart 1: Educating the Poor 1. Joseph Lancaster, Initiatory Schools2. J. A. James, The Sunday School Teacher’s Guide3. 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 Females of the Rising Generation4. Practical Suggestions: The Work and How to Do It5. The Ragged School Shoe-Black Society: An Account of its Origins, Operations, and Present Condition6. Testimony of William Locke, Select Committee on the Education of Destitute Children. Minutes of Evidence7. The Dens of London: Forty Years’ Mission Work Among the Outcast Poor of London8. J. Reid Howatt, Then and Now: A Sketch of 50 Years’ Work of the Ragged School Union9. William Watson, Should I Subscribe to the Industrial School? Reasons for the Education of Pauper Children10. Mary Carpenter, Reformatory Schools for the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes and for Juvenile OffendersPart 2: Friendly Societies and Benevolent Institutions11. Mrs. Edwin Gray, A Woman’s Friendly Society12. Articles, Rules, &c. of a Friendly Society, held at W. Doxford’s, Wheat Sheaf Inn, West Bolden13. London Orphan Asylum14. The Sixth Annual Report of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Widows; Applying Within the First Month of their Widowhood15. Governesses’ Benevolent Institution. Report for 184616. The Metropolitan Reformatories and Refuges: An Authentic Account of Thirty Institutions17. Charity and Food: Report of the Special Committee of the Charity Organization Society Upon Soup Kitchens, Children’s Breakfasts and Dinners, and Cheap Food Supply18. All About the Salvation Army19. William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out20. Charities Register and Digest; Being a Classified Register of Charities in or Available for the Metropolis, Together with a Digest of Information Respecting the Legal, Voluntary, and Other Means for the Prevention and Relief of Distress and the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor21. Report by the Central British Red Cross on Voluntary Organizations in and of the Sick and Wounded During the South African WarPart 3: The Visitor and the Friend22. Catharine Cappe, Thoughts23. Elizabeth Fry, Observations on Visiting, Superintendence, and Government of Female Prisoners by Elizabeth Fry24. Extracts from Visitors’ Journals25. Communications from Visitors: Advantage of District Visiting26. Susan Porson Hawes, A Few Remarks on District Visiting27. London District Nurses of the Biblewomen and Nurses Mission Report 1900 28. Mrs F. Jeune [Mary Jeune], Helping the FallenIndex