Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
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 .
Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976.
112
She supported...
Occupation Elizabeth Charles
According to Marie Belloc Lowndes this was the first home for the dying founded in England.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941.
354
EC also involved herself with the North London Hospital for Consumption (the disease of which her husband had...
Occupation 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...

Timeline

1877: The Metropolitan Association for Befriending...

Building item

1877

The Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants , a social purity group which worked with workhouse girls, adopted the ideas of reformer Ellice Hopkins .
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
98

Texts

No bibliographical results available.