Philanthropy and the Construction of Victorian Women's by Andrea Geddes Poole

By Andrea Geddes Poole

British social reformers Emma Cons (1838–1911) and Lucy Cavendish (1841–1924) broke new floor of their efforts to raised the lot of the operating negative in London: they was hoping to rework those people’s lives via nice artwork, song, excessive tradition, and elite wisdom. even if they didn't realize it as such, their paintings used to be in lots of methods an confirmation and demonstrate of citizenship. This e-book makes use of Cons’s and Cavendish’s partnership and paintings as an illuminating aspect of departure for exploring the bigger subject of women’s philanthropic campaigns in overdue Victorian and Edwardian society.

Andrea Geddes Poole demonstrates that, starting within the past due 1860s, a shift used to be happening from an emphasis on charity as a personal, own act of women’s virtuous accountability to public philanthropy as facts of citizenly, civic participation. She exhibits that, via philanthropic works, girls have been in a position to build a separate public sphere by which they can converse on to one another approximately tips on how to impact concerns of important public coverage – a long time prior to ladies have been eventually granted the correct to vote.

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