Louisa Twining

Standard Name: Twining, Louisa

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
She was drawn into this work through her friendships with Louisa Twining and Margaret Elliot , daughter of the Dean of Bristol .
Cobbe, Frances Power. Life of Frances Power Cobbe. Houghton, Mifflin, 1894, 2 vols.
1: 281, 291
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
108-9
Friends, Associates Emily Faithfull
EF suffered in various ways as a result of the trial. The sense that she had prevaricated, at the very least, alienated many of her associates on The English Woman's Journal, including Emily Davies
Publishing Frances Power Cobbe
FPC 's first published essay, about an Italian workhouse, appeared over the initial C in Louisa Twining 's Journal of the Workhouse Visiting Society.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
112
Textual Production Emily Faithfull
EF also published Mary Merryweather 's Experience of Factory Life.
Fredeman, William E. “Emily Faithfull and the Victoria Press: An Experiment in Sociological Bibliography”. The Library, Vol.
29
, No. 2, –June 1974, pp. 139-64.
162
As a publisher she produced a high proportion of texts by female authors, including Frances Power Cobbe , Sarah Stickney Ellis , Louisa Twining

Timeline

1847: Louisa Twining first visited the poor, around...

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1847

Louisa Twining first visited the poor, around her childhood home in the Strand.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
175

1853: Louisa Twining began her work with the inmates...

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1853

Louisa Twining began her work with the inmates of the Strand workhouse.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
175

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.
20-1
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.
108
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
175

1858: Louisa Twining became secretary of the newly-founded...

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1858

Louisa Twining became secretary of the newly-founded Workhouse Visiting Society .
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
176

1861: Testifying before a Select Committee on Poor...

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1861

Testifying before a Select Committee on Poor Relief, Louisa Twining noted of poor females that service . . . is the only occupation they can follow in life.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
154

1866: Louisa Twining and several prominent male...

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1866

Louisa Twining and several prominent male reformers joined together to found the Association for the Improvement of Workhouse Infirmaries .
White, Rosemary. Social Change and the Development of the Nursing Profession: A Study of the Poor Law Nursing Service, 1848-1948. H. Kimpton, 1978.
22

1879: The Association for Promoting Trained Nursing...

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1879

The Association for Promoting Trained Nursing in Workhouse Infirmaries and Sick Asylums was founded.
White, Rosemary. Social Change and the Development of the Nursing Profession: A Study of the Poor Law Nursing Service, 1848-1948. H. Kimpton, 1978.
75-6

1881: The Women Guardians Society was founded....

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1881

The Women Guardians Society was founded.
Hollis, Patricia. Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914. Clarendon, 1987.
231, 234

1884: Louisa Twining was elected Poor Law Guardian...

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1884

Louisa Twining was elected Poor Law Guardian in Kensington.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
175, 180

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