Author: Clara Lucas Balfour
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Category : Girls
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Toil and Trust, Or, The Life Story of Patty, the Workhouse Girl
Author: Clara Lucas Balfour
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Category : Girls
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category : Girls
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Nan's Story, Or, The Life and Work of a City Arab
Author: L. Sharp
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Category : Abused children
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Category : Abused children
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Toil and Trust
Author: Clara Lucas Balfour
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Category : Workhouses
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Category : Workhouses
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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The Match Girl and the Heiress
Author: Seth Koven
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691171319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
How two extraordinary women crossed the Victorian class divide to put Christian teachings into practice in the slums of East London Nellie Dowell was a match factory girl in Victorian London who spent her early years consigned to orphanages and hospitals. Muriel Lester, the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder, longed to be free of the burden of money and possessions. Together, these unlikely soulmates sought to remake the world according to their own utopian vision of Christ's teachings. The Match Girl and the Heiress paints an unforgettable portrait of their late-nineteenth-century girlhoods of wealth and want, and their daring twentieth-century experiments in ethical living in a world torn apart by war, imperialism, and industrial capitalism. In this captivating book, Seth Koven chronicles how each traveled the globe—Nellie as a spinster proletarian laborer, Muriel as a well-heeled tourist and revered Christian peacemaker, anticolonial activist, and humanitarian. Koven vividly describes how their lives crossed in the slums of East London, where they inaugurated a grassroots revolution that took the Sermon on the Mount as a guide to achieving economic and social justice for the dispossessed. Koven shows how they devoted themselves to Kingsley Hall—Gandhi's London home in 1931 and Britain's first "people's house" founded on the Christian principles of social sharing, pacifism, and reconciliation—and sheds light on the intimacies and inequalities of their loving yet complicated relationship. The Match Girl and the Heiress probes the inner lives of these two extraordinary women against the panoramic backdrop of shop-floor labor politics, global capitalism, counterculture spirituality, and pacifist feminism to expose the wounds of poverty and neglect that Christian love could never heal.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691171319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
How two extraordinary women crossed the Victorian class divide to put Christian teachings into practice in the slums of East London Nellie Dowell was a match factory girl in Victorian London who spent her early years consigned to orphanages and hospitals. Muriel Lester, the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder, longed to be free of the burden of money and possessions. Together, these unlikely soulmates sought to remake the world according to their own utopian vision of Christ's teachings. The Match Girl and the Heiress paints an unforgettable portrait of their late-nineteenth-century girlhoods of wealth and want, and their daring twentieth-century experiments in ethical living in a world torn apart by war, imperialism, and industrial capitalism. In this captivating book, Seth Koven chronicles how each traveled the globe—Nellie as a spinster proletarian laborer, Muriel as a well-heeled tourist and revered Christian peacemaker, anticolonial activist, and humanitarian. Koven vividly describes how their lives crossed in the slums of East London, where they inaugurated a grassroots revolution that took the Sermon on the Mount as a guide to achieving economic and social justice for the dispossessed. Koven shows how they devoted themselves to Kingsley Hall—Gandhi's London home in 1931 and Britain's first "people's house" founded on the Christian principles of social sharing, pacifism, and reconciliation—and sheds light on the intimacies and inequalities of their loving yet complicated relationship. The Match Girl and the Heiress probes the inner lives of these two extraordinary women against the panoramic backdrop of shop-floor labor politics, global capitalism, counterculture spirituality, and pacifist feminism to expose the wounds of poverty and neglect that Christian love could never heal.
The Life of J. Mc Currey, ... Containing Thirty-nine Years'experience as a Temperance Advocate, Etc. [An Autobiography.]
Author: James MACCURREY
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Gerard Mastyn, the Son of a Genius, Etc
Author: Edwin Harcourt Burrage
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Category : Brothers
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
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Category : Brothers
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
How Peter's Pound Became a Penny
Author: Peter
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Half-hours with the Kings and Queens of England
Author: William Henry Giles Kingston
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Publisher and Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 930
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Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 930
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