TY  - BOOK
AU  - Geddes Poole,Andrea
TI  - Philanthropy and the Construction of Victorian Women's Citizenship: Lady Frederick Cavendish and Miss Emma Cons 
SN  - 9781442642317
AV  - HV541 .G433 2014
U1  - 361.7092/52094209034 
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Citizenship
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Social reformers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women in charitable work
KW  - Women philanthropists
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Lucy Cavendish --; 2. Circumventing the Bishops: Women’s Philanthropy and the Church of England --; 3. Emma Cons --; 4. Opera for Lambeth --; 5. The Citizens of Morley College --; 6. Philanthropy and Citizenship --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - British social reformers Emma Cons (1838–1911) and Lucy Cavendish (1841–1924) broke new ground in their efforts to better the lot of the working poor in London: they hoped to transform these people’s lives through great art, music, high culture, and elite knowledge. Although they did not recognize it as such, their work was in many ways an affirmation and display of citizenship. This book uses Cons’s and Cavendish’s partnership and work as an illuminating point of departure for exploring the larger topic of women’s philanthropic campaigns in late Victorian and Edwardian society.Andrea Geddes Poole demonstrates that, beginning in the late 1860s, a shift was occurring from an emphasis on charity as a private, personal act of women’s virtuous duty to public philanthropy as evidence of citizenly, civic participation. She shows that, through philanthropic works, women were able to construct a separate public sphere through which they could speak directly to each other about how to affect matters of significant public policy – decades before women were finally granted the right to vote
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442665583
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442665583
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ER  -