Slum Travelers

Slum Travelers
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 345
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ISBN-13 : 9780520940055
ISBN-10 : 0520940059
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Book Synopsis Slum Travelers by : Ellen Ross

Download or read book Slum Travelers written by Ellen Ross and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-07-26 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late-nineteenth-century Britain saw the privileged classes forsake society balls and gatherings to turn their considerable resources to investigating and relieving poverty. By the 1890s at least half a million women were involved in philanthropy, particularly in London. Slum Travelers, edited, annotated, and with a superb introduction by Ellen Ross, collects a fascinating array of the writings of these "lady explorers," who were active in the east, south, and central London slums from around 1870 until the end of World War I. Contributors range from the well known, including Annie Besant, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Beatrice Webb (then Potter), to the obscure. The collection reclaims an important group of writers whose representations of urban poverty have been eclipsed by better-known male authors such as Charles Dickens and Jack London.


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