Charity and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Kevin A. Morrison is Distinguished Professor of British Literature in the School of Foreign Languages at Henan University. He is the author of Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture: Synergies of Thought and Place (2018), A Micro-History of Victorian Liberal Parenting: John Morley’s "Discreet Indifference" (2018), and Study-Abroad Pedagogy, Dark Tourism, and Historical Reenactment: In the Footsteps of Jack the Ripper and His Victims (2019). He has edited a number of collections including, most recently, Walter Besant: The Business of the Literature and the Pleasures of Reform (2019).

• Volume V: The Business of Charity and PhilanthropyList of IllustrationsGeneral IntroductionVolume V Introduction: The Business of Charity and PhilanthropyPart 1: Administration and Management1. Report from His Majesty’s Commissioners for Inquiring into the Administration and Practical Operations of the Poor Laws2. Rules and Regulations of the British Orphan Asylum, Kingsland, for the Board, Clothing, and Education of Fatherless Children and Destitute Orphans, from the Age of Seven to Fourteen Years, Who Have Not Received Parochial Assistance, and Whose Parents Have Moved in the Middle and Respectable Walks of Society; and a List of the Subscribers, Placed in the Districts in Which They Vote3. Rules and Regulations of the Governesses’ Benevolent Institution4. Laws, Ministers’ Benevolent Society: Report of the Sixth Annual Meeting, Held in Birmingham, October 27, 18685. National Temperance Society Report: Eleventh Annual Report6. Friends in Need: Some Papers Read at a Conference of Ladies’ Associations for the Care of Friendless Girls, Held at Barnsley, April 3rd and 4th, 18897. R. W. Hartshorn, Registry for Destitute Boys; Promoting Education and Employment8. Thomas Hawksley, The Charities of London & Some Errors of their Administration: With Suggestions for an Improved System of Private and Official Charitable Relief9. William Banting, Letter in Defence of the Present System of Electing Candidates at Public Institutions10. Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood11. T. W. Fowle, The Poor Law12. Charles Stewart Loch, The Future of Charity13. Richard Edmund Mitcheson, Charitable Trusts: The Jurisdiction of the Charity Commission14. Charles Dickens, Telescopic Philanthropy15. Louisa Hubbard, Statistics of Women’s WorkPart 2: Raising Money16. London Orphan Asylum Annual Report17. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London. Written in Rome18. Robert Browning, The Twins: “Give” and “It-Shall-Be-Given-Unto-You”’19. [Anon.], The Ragged School Teacher’s Appeal to All Classes20. Second Annual Report of the Catholic Poor School Committee of Birmingham21. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point22. Eliza Grove, A Beam for Mental Darkness23. B. Conybeare, Friendless Meg24. The Dens of London: Forty Years’ Mission Work Among the Outcast Poor of London25. The Work of the Midland Deaf and Dumb Institution26. Royal Literary Fund. Report of the Anniversary27. Children of the Street: The Need of a Waifs’ Home28. Personal Notes29. Anna Wilkes, Rescue Work in East London30. The Child Derelicts of the StreetIndex