Ragged School Union

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Textual Features	Charlotte Maria Tucker	This, one of her most lively and engaging children's books, features a main character named Ratto, who wanders through the world from London to Russia, eventually joining up with a rat-hero named Whiskerandos. This...
Textual Features	Catherine Marsh	After his death, Arthur's widow requested that CM should write a biography of her husband, which she agreed to do. O’Rorke, Lucy. The Life and Friendships of Catherine Marsh. Longmans, Green & Co., 1917. 204 CM recounts his boyhood Sunday school attendance, and how the death of his mother...
Textual Production	Caroline Frances Cornwallis	This book came out of CFC 's long held sentiment that the current treatment of children needed to be corrected. Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Selections from the Letters of Caroline Frances Cornwallis. Editor Power, M. C., Trübner and Co., 1864. 202, 204-5 The Ragged School Union had been founded in 1844 to promote education for...

The Ragged School Union was founded and began opening schools in the slums of great cities.

Martin, Christopher. A Short History of English Schools, 1750-1965. Wayland, 1979.

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Borer, Mary Cathcart. Willingly to School: A History of Women’s Education. Lutterworth Press, 1976.

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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.

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The Ragged School Union operated more than 600 schools, and had educated more than 250,000 children since its founding in 1844.

Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.

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