Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood.
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Employer | Stella Benson | The Women's Emergency Corps despatched her to Hoxton, in London's East End, to work with women and the poor in the Charity Organization Society
, with which she accepted a salaried clerical position in... |
| Education | Ann Bridge | While living cheaply and working for the Charity Organization Society
, Mary Anne Sanders (later AB
) studied at the |
| Occupation | Ann Bridge | Since, however, writing seemed unlikely to yield her a livelihood, she went immediately to work as assistant secretary for the Charity Organization Society
, Chelsea branch. This paid her twenty-three shillings a week, with hours... |
| politics | Maria Grey | MG
joined the Charity Organization Society
(founded the previous year); she served on its council with Octavia Hill
. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Kate Marsden | The Charity Organization Society of London
delivered its report regarding the accuracy of KM
's claims about her travels and her management of the Kate Marsden Leper Fund
. Baigent, Elizabeth. “Kate Marsden: 18591931”. Geographers Biobibliographical Studies, edited by Hayden Lorimer and Charles W. J. Withers, Continuum, pp. 63-92. 69 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Kate Marsden | In 1892 the Kate Marsden Leper Fund
was reported to be under investigation for financial irregularities by the Charity Organization Society
of London. Chapman, Hilary. “The New Zealand Campaign against Kate Marsden, Traveller to Siberia”. New Zealand Slavonic Journal, pp. 123-40. 131 |
| Occupation | Eleanor Rathbone | Soon after leaving OxfordER
became a Visitor for the Liverpool Central Relief Society
, which was linked to the Charity Organization Society
(COS): her first formal experience, it seems, in social work. Pedersen, Susan. Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience. Yale University Press. 59 Stobaugh, Beverly. Women and Parliament, 1918-1970. Exposition Press. 35 |
| Occupation | Eleanor Rathbone | Rathbone and Macadam collaborated on many social and political projects, most with feminist aims. They began by stabilising the Settlement's budget and community programmes. The two then served on the founding committee of the School of Social Studies and Training for Social Work |
| Occupation | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
began her career (her own term) in welfare work under the ægis of Mrs. Humphry Ward
. Tweedsmuir, Susan. The Lilac and the Rose. G. Duckworth. 87 |
| Occupation | Harriet Shaw Weaver | HSW
volunteered with the Holiday Fund
, founded by Canon Barnett
to send ailing slum children away for recuperative vacations. Barnett was a disciple of Octavia Hill
and a founding spirit in the Charity Organization Society |
| Occupation | Harriet Shaw Weaver | HSW
volunteered as a case-worker for the Whitechapel Committee of the Charity Organization Society
, an institution that aimed to reduce poverty by making the poor more self-sufficient. Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking. 38-9 |
| Education | Harriet Shaw Weaver | She volunteered with the Charity Organization Society
to fulfil the practical requirement, but seems not to have completed a degree. |
| Occupation | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice Potter (later BW
) volunteered as a case-worker for the philanthropic Charity Organization Society
(COS) founded by Octavia Hill
. Nord, Deborah Epstein. The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb. University of Massachusetts Press. 50 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Beatrice Webb | She was working as manager of these buildings, part of the low-income housing project of the Charity Organization Society
(COS) founded by Octavia Hill
. |
Timeline
1869: The Charity Organization Society was founded...
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1869
The Charity Organization Society
was founded by Octavia Hill
.
1874: Charles Bosanquet, first Secretary of the...
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1874
Charles Bosanquet
, first Secretary of the Charity Organization Society
, published A Handy-Book for Visitors of the Poor in London.
1875: In Kensington, Martha Merrington became the...
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1875
In Kensington, Martha Merrington
became the first of many women elected as a Poor Law Guardian; previously women had carried out poor law work after being conscripted or acclaimed without contest in elections.
1911: Jane Brownlow wrote the Women's Local Government...
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1911
Jane Brownlow
wrote the Women's Local Government Society
handbook, Women's Work in Local Government.
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