Victorians and the case for charity : essays on responses to English poverty by the state, the church and the literati / edited by Marilyn D. Button and Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen.

"This collection of all new essays seeks to answer a series of questions surrounding the Victorian response to poverty in Britain. The project is organized against the backdrop of the 1834 New Poor Laws, recognizing that poverty garnered considerable attention in England because of its pervasive and...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Button, Marilyn (Editor)
Sheetz-Nguyen, Jessica A. (Editor)
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.
Physical Description:viii, 272 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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 / Renée 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.