Salvation Army

When Topsy died in 1998, the remainder of the estate went to the Salvation Army and the British and Foreign Bible Society .

The novel is set in the fictional United States mill town of Minton, where the eponymous hero establishes a radical workers' newspaper. The story advocates labour reforms as proposed by the Knights of Labour ...

A Babe in Bohemia depicts the work of the Salvation Army , with incidents and background which struck reviewers variously as realistic, or vulgar and earthy, or squalid and horrible. The plot builds to a...

A City Girl is an empathetic portrait of the struggle of women to survive financially and sexually in the slums of the East End of London (which form the setting of most of MH 's...

Unlike many socialists, MH saw the Salvation Army in a positive light and greatly admired its practical work in alleviating poverty and helping young women and men living and working away from their homes. Again...

The plot concentrates its action during the period its title specifies: a climactic time of decision in the life of the protagonist, and in history a part of the long-drawn-out agony of Passchendaele, where...

In 1883 JB published The Salvation Army in Switzerland. She also contributed occasionally to Wings, the publication of the Women's Total Abstinence Union . Several of these articles were reprinted in Prophets...

MH , as John Law, published Captain Lobe, A Story of the Salvation Army, her third novel. It appeared in serial form in the British Weekly before being published as a volume.

GS includes a map, and reproduces contemporary comments on her historical action, especially from actual columns and letters from The Times and Pall Mall Gazette of 1884-5. Her Gordon, a fanatical martinet who refuses to...

CP advocated militancy in the suffrage movement. February 1908 witnessed her Trojan Horse strategy, in which she smuggled suffragettes into the House of Commons in two furniture vans. She also borrowed organisational strategies from William

The Court Theatre presented Major Barbara, a three-act comedy by GBS in which he pits the ethos of the Salvation Army against modern industrialism.

She was able to put her mourning behind her when her husband was elected Mayor of Hertford, and a great deal of support fell to her lot, with some social duties of her own.

MC and Evangeline and Francesca French rented a flat in Hampstead, to help their missionary work for organisations including the British and Foreign Bible Society , the China Inland Mission , and the Salvation Army .

NH 's next brother is several times mentioned in her first memoir. Her sister Helen (never mentioned during their shared youth) later married Augustus Booth-Clibborn (grandson of the founders of the Salvation Army ) and...

UM took a secretarial position with the Salvation Army in Kingston, Jamaica. This job initiated her long-term involvement with social work and advocacy for Jamaica's poor.