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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants
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Elizabeth Charles
According to Marie Belloc Lowndes this was
the first home for the dying founded in England.
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Lowndes, Marie Belloc.
I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia
. Macmillan.
354
EC
also involved herself with the
North London Hospital for Consumption
(the disease of which her husband had...
Family and Intimate relationships
Carola Oman
Having worked before her marriage with the
Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants
(founded by
Octavia Hill
), Mary Oman worked in Oxford for innumerable charities including the
Church Missionary Society
.
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Oman, Carola.
An Oxford Childhood
. Hodder and Stoughton.
112
She supported...
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Harriet Shaw Weaver
HSW
maintained records of school-leavers, helped organize apprenticeships, and raised subsistence money for children being trained. She negotiated help from the
East London Apprenticeship Fund
, the
Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants
, and...
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1877: The Metropolitan Association for Befriending...
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1877
The
Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants
, a social purity group which worked with workhouse girls, adopted the ideas of reformer
Ellice Hopkins
.
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