- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Map of London in 1888
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Introduction Adventures among the Poor -
1 “A Lady Resident” -
2 Annie (Wood) Besant -
3 Clementina Black and Adele (Lady Carl) Meyer -
4 Helen (Dendy) Bosanquet -
5 Agnes Kate Foxwell -
6 Clara Ellen Grant -
7 Margaret Harkness -
8 Mary (Kingsland) Higgs -
9 Edith (Mrs. F. G.) Hogg -
10 Amy Levy -
11 Margaret McMillan -
12 Olive Christian Malvery -
13 Anna Martin -
14 Honnor Morten -
15 Margaret Wynne Nevinson -
16 Sylvia Pankhurst -
17 Florence Petty -
18 Ellen Henrietta Ranyard -
19 Maud Pember Reeves -
20 Maude Alethea Stanley -
21 Dorothy Tennant (Lady Stanley) -
22 Introduction: Our Contemporary Intellectual Predicament -
23 Kate Warburton -
24 Beatrice (Potter) Webb -
Appendix 1 The Geography of London Wealth and Poverty -
Appendix 2 The Texts Arranged Thematically - Glossary of Terms, Institutions, and Organizations
- Index
Beatrice (Potter) Webb
Beatrice (Potter) Webb
- Chapter:
- (p.262) 24 Beatrice (Potter) Webb
- Source:
- Slum Travelers
- Author(s):
Ellen Ross
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter focuses on Beatrice (Potter) Webb, a slum explorer and philanthropist. Born to a wealthy Gloucestershire businessman and his wife who were involved with the Charity Organization Society (COS), Beatrice also became involved in charity work however her approach to poverty was rather a clinical one and not based on the “spirit of charity”. For her, poverty was a central political question of her time. This chapter presents her “Pages from a Work-Girl's Diary”. This article was closely based on her detailed diary entries, which included word-for-word reports of conversations with employers and workers in the industry.
Keywords: Beatrice Webb, slum explorer, philanthropist, Charity Organization Society, poverty
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Map of London in 1888
-
Introduction Adventures among the Poor -
1 “A Lady Resident” -
2 Annie (Wood) Besant -
3 Clementina Black and Adele (Lady Carl) Meyer -
4 Helen (Dendy) Bosanquet -
5 Agnes Kate Foxwell -
6 Clara Ellen Grant -
7 Margaret Harkness -
8 Mary (Kingsland) Higgs -
9 Edith (Mrs. F. G.) Hogg -
10 Amy Levy -
11 Margaret McMillan -
12 Olive Christian Malvery -
13 Anna Martin -
14 Honnor Morten -
15 Margaret Wynne Nevinson -
16 Sylvia Pankhurst -
17 Florence Petty -
18 Ellen Henrietta Ranyard -
19 Maud Pember Reeves -
20 Maude Alethea Stanley -
21 Dorothy Tennant (Lady Stanley) -
22 Introduction: Our Contemporary Intellectual Predicament -
23 Kate Warburton -
24 Beatrice (Potter) Webb -
Appendix 1 The Geography of London Wealth and Poverty -
Appendix 2 The Texts Arranged Thematically - Glossary of Terms, Institutions, and Organizations
- Index
