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...
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1857 or 1858: Louisa Twining initiated the Workhouse Visiting...
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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.
White, Rosemary. Social Change and the Development of the Nursing Profession: A Study of the Poor Law Nursing Service, 1848-1948. H. Kimpton, 1978.
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Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
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Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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1858: Louisa Twining became secretary of the newly-founded...
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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1878: Given the increasing institutionalizing of...
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1878
Given the increasing institutionalizing of philanthropic visiting, the Workhouse Visiting Society
closed its Waterloo Place offices, considering its work to be done.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
