Workhouse Visiting Society
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Frances Power Cobbe | The pamphlet, FPC
's first of many papers for the Congress, was printed with both women's names in full. It argued that since they were incurably ill, such patients should be removed from the punitive... |
Timeline
1857 or 1858
Louisa Twining
initiated the Workhouse Visiting Society
some years after a visit to the Strand Workhouse left her shocked at the loneliness and isolation that the inmates faced.
1858
Louisa Twining
became secretary of the newly-founded Workhouse Visiting Society
.
1878
Given the increasing institutionalizing of philanthropic visiting, the Workhouse Visiting Society
closed its Waterloo Place offices, considering its work to be done.