Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| death | Edith Lyttelton | Her memorial service was attended by relations and by prominent members of society, politicians, and representatives from the wide variety of causes she supported, including the Victoria League
, the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre Committee |
| Employer | Una Marson | 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. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Nina Hamnett | 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... |
| Occupation | Mildred Cable | 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
. Platt, William James. Three Women. Hodder & Stoughton, 1964. 190-1 |
| Occupation | Annie S. Swan | 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. Swan, Annie S. My Life. Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1934. 126ff |
| Performance of text | George Bernard Shaw | 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. Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxiv Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982. |
| politics | Christabel Pankhurst | |
| Textual Features | Gillian Slovo | 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... |
| Textual Production | Josephine Butler | In 1883 JB
published The Salvation Army
in Switzerland. Stuart, James, 1843 - 1913 et al. “Preface and Editorial Materials”. Josephine E. Butler: An Autobiographical Memoir, edited by George W. Johnson and Lucy A. Johnson, J. W. Arrowsmith, 1928, p. v - vii; various pages. 130 |
| Textual Production | Margaret Harkness | 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. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Bellamy, Joyce M., and John Saville, editors. Dictionary of Labour Biography. Macmillan, 1972–2024. viii: 106-7 |
| Textual Production | Margaret Harkness | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Julia Frankau | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Harkness | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Harkness | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Agnes Maule Machar | 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
... |
Timeline
1864: Evangelists William and Catherine Booth moved...
Building item
1864
Evangelists William
and Catherine Booth
moved to Mile End Road, London, and founded the East London Revival Society
, a precursor to their later Salvation Army
.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
131
2 July 1865: William Booth led his first evangelical Christian...
Building item
2 July 1865
William Booth
led his first evangelical Christian Mission
meeting in London's East End.
Alderman, Geoffrey. Modern Britain 1700-1983: A Domestic History. Croom Helm, 1986.
159
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
286
1877: Gospel Temperance reached England, brought...
Building item
1877
Gospel Temperance reached England, brought over from the United States to London by William Noble
.
Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
111-12
1878: Evangelists William and Catherine Booth founded...
Building item
1878
Evangelists William
and Catherine Booth
founded the Salvation Army
; this was an evolution from their earlier Christian Mission
, attempting a more aggressive military-style approach to charity work.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
131
1882: By this date, the Salvation Army was comprised...
Building item
1882
By this date, the Salvation Army
was comprised of 15,000 volunteers, organized by nearly 750 paid officers at 521 stations.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
132
Turner, Ernest Sackville. “Hallelujah Lasses”. London Review of Books, 24 May 2001, pp. 38-9.
39
1884: The Salvation Army's Women's Social Services...
Building item
1884
The Salvation Army
's Women's Social Services was created in Whitechapel.
Higginbotham, Ann R. “Respectable Sinners: Salvation Army Rescue Work with Unmarried Mothers, 1884-1914”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 216-33.
217-18
Turner, Ernest Sackville. “Hallelujah Lasses”. London Review of Books, 24 May 2001, pp. 38-9.
39
6 February 1884: Mother of the Salvation Army Catherine Booth...
Women writers item
6 February 1884
Mother of the Salvation ArmyCatherine Booth
delivered at Exeter Hall a speech, later published as a pamphlet, called The Iniquity of State Regulated Vice.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Willett, Perry, and Perry Willett, editors. “Victorian Women Writers Project”. Indiana University.
19 July 1885: A corps of Salvation Army soldiers presented...
National or international item
19 July 1885
A corps of Salvation Army
soldiers presented to Parliament a petition to raise the age of sexual consent.
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.
131
By 1 November 1890: William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army,...
Building item
By 1 November 1890
William Booth
, founder of the Salvation Army
, published In Darkest England, and the Way Out, a call for active Christianity and social reform.
Norman, Edward R. Church and Society in England, 1770-1970. Clarendon, 1976.
134
Higginbotham, Ann R. “Respectable Sinners: Salvation Army Rescue Work with Unmarried Mothers, 1884-1914”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 216-33.
217
Begbie, Harold. Life of William Booth. Macmillan, 1920.
122
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3288 (1890): 578
1934: Evangeline Cora Booth, daughter of Salvation...
Building item
1934
Evangeline Cora Booth
, daughter of Salvation Army
founders Catherine
and William Booth
, was elected Commander of the Salvation Army worldwide.
Brakeman, Lynne, and Susan Gall, editors. Chronology of Women Worldwide: People, Places and Events that Shaped Women’s History. Gale Research, 1997.
370
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