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  Mintz, Dr. Fredric, 187–88

  Montessori schools, 4, 45, 62, 267, 270, 285, 303, 304, 318. See also Lester, Doris: and Montessori school at Kingsley Hall

  moral paternalism, 19

  Morel, Edmund, 175, 176, 399n119, 413n15

  Morrell, Rev. John Earle, 165–67

  Morris, E. W.: History of the London Hospital, 196–97

  Morrison, Arthur, 69, 157, 374n145

  Morten, Honnor, 269–71, 274, 418–19n46

  Mortimer, George, 263, 264, 266, 318, 416n27

  Mortimer, Lily, 263

  motherhood/mothering, 31, 32, 66, 73, 127, 278, 365nn30 and 41, 379n31. See also slum motherhood

  Mothers’ Meetings, 167–68, 169, 170

  Mundella, Anthony, 51; Department Committee on Poor Law Schools (Mundella Committee), 52, 53

  Muriel Lester House (Ann Arbor, Michigan), 6

  Myers, Violet, 168

  mysticism, 143, 212–14; Christian, 144

  Nash, Miss, 92–94, 384n83

  National Registration Act, 221

  National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 79

  National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), 282–84, 288

  naturopathy, 212

  Nevinson, Henry Woodd, 53, 54, 371–72n105; “Scenes in a Barrack School,” 53–54

  New Crusader/Crusader, 294, 295, 295–97, 314, 318, 224

  New Girls, 66, 68, 72, 73

  “New Jerusalem,” 2, 261

  New Poor Law, (1834), 16, 50, 133, 177, 178, 180, 196, 303, 326

  New Theology movement, 136, 149–50, 182, 183. See also religious modernism

  New Unionism, 87, 276

  New Woman, 66, 136, 159, 183, 373n129

  New Zealand, 8, 52, 78, 104–6, 108, 112, 122–25, 131, 132. See also Dowell, Nellie: in New Zealand; match girls; match industry

  Niebuhr, Reinhold: on pacifism, 259

  Nonconformists/Nonconformity, 10, 44, 61, 70, 127, 136, 176, 177, 210, 211, 221, 255, 259, 283, 296, 395–96n63, 421n80

  Northcote, Sir Stafford, 48–50, 56

  Oldfield, Josiah, 69–70

  Osler, Sir William: on Christian Science, 206–7

  Orchard, Rev. William, 150, 395n55

  Orwell, George, 260

  pacifism, 3, 150, 259, 275, 285, 288, 301, 423n102; absolutist, 425–26n140, 426n145; global, 5; radical Christian, 286

  Pankhurst, Emmeline, 89, 280, 282

  Pankhurst, Sylvia, 275, 277, 286, 307, 312, 314

  Papanui, 10, 124

  Pearse, Dr. Margaret, 67

  People’s Charter, 265–66

  personal responsibility, 268

  Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline, 145, 170, 280, 281, 287, 421n73

  Pethick-Lawrence, Frederick, 145, 170, 280, 281

  philanthropists/philanthropy, 9, 39, 50, 57, 91, 101, 134, 179, 208, 275, 283, 296, 351; bourgeois, 179, 286, 358n5; Christian, 57; private, 191; religiously based, 278; Victorian, 84, 351

  Phillips, Rev. Thomas, 262

  phosphorous, 85; white, 88, 387n120; yellow, 129

  Platten, Benjamin, 162, 209, 270; as conscientious objector, 221–23

  Poole, Maria, 52, 53

  poorhouses, 40

  Poor Law: and the family, 177; in fiction, 47; garb, 42, 180; and half-orphans, 1, 8, 11, 53, 72 (see also Dowell, Nellie: as Poor Law half-orphan); and hospitals, 1, 200; and institutions; 8, 12, 17, 39, 119, 128, 133, 200, 301; and officials, 44; overhaul of, 51, 52, 178, 180, 181, 196, 290; and records, 23; and schools, 44, 53, 71, 133 (see also barrack schools; Forest Gate); and slum motherhood, 32–39; stigma of, 167

  Poor Law unions, 23, 38, 39

  Poplar and Stepney Poor Law Infirmary (St. Andrew’s Hospital), 10, 186, 186, 230, 326

  Poplar Board of Guardians, 128, 180, 181

  Poplar Municipal Alliance, 181

  Poplar Rate Strike (Poplarism), 190–91

  Prayer of Relaxation, 202, 203, 218, 219, 247, 254

  Presence of God, 213, 216, 247, 319, 332

  pro-peace march, 312–13

  prostitutes/prostitution, 40, 41, 54, 76, 84, 246

  Pryke, Beatrice (“Beattie”), 159–62, 181, 335

  Pryke, Eliza, 159–60

  “public schools,” 11, 70, 346–47n78

  Pullen, Mu (Alice Muriel), 348

  Quaker/Quakerism, 148, 258, 290, 296, 304, 419n52

  queerness, 9, 212, 214, 237, 243, 244, 248, 412nn150 and 152

  race/racism, 1–2, 32, 52, 128, 130, 131, 132, 137, 145, 156, 176, 218, 292, 330, 373n125, 399n119, 413n155

  radical egalitarianism, 1, 11, 162

  radicalism: Christian, 136, 162, 300; grassroots, 93; political, 89; secular, 399n118

  Rathbone, Eleanor, 286

  Raw, Louise, 87, 379n31

  R. Bell and Company, 10, 78, 91, 108, 112, 114, 115, 17, 121, 125, 129, 130, 132, 122, 201, 276; and home workers, 31, 379n30; strike at, 95–103

  reconciliation: and Christian revolution, 19, 144, 288–98, 315; Nellie Dowell’s use of, 310–11, 330; Henry Lester on, 138; Muriel Lester on, 137, 138, 151, 152, 332; as peacemaking instrument, 332, 341; and politics, 318; and theology, 138, 153, 292–293, 424n125

  Reeves, William Pember, 114

  Regions Beyond Inland Mission/Regions Beyond Missionary Union, 91, 172–75, 230. See also Berger Hall; Grattan Guinness, Rev. Harry; Hayes, Rev. Daniel

  religious modernism, 135, 150, 177, 183, 212

  Renewal (1903): and Wales 153

  restitution: concept of, 19; and Restitution Fund, 260, 322, 323, 351, 431n222

  Roberts, Rev. Richard, 291, 293, 329

  Rollason, Jack: and Men’s Adult School, 271

  Round Table Conference (1931), 5, 335, 346

  Royden, Maude, 246; as pacifist feminist, 275; Sex and Common-Sense, 247

  Ruskin, John, 29, 69, 288–89, 294

  Russell, Bertrand, on revolution, 425–26n140

  Rustin, Bayard, 6

  Saleeby, Caleb, 49

  “Salt of the Earth, The” (M. Lester), 7, 14, 307, 327, 336; as exempla, 327

  same-sex desire, 3, 20, 238, 243, 246

  schoolteachers, 29, 55, 64, 71, 73, 75, 111, 163, 270, 342, 344

  Schreiner, Olive: Dreams, 76

  Scurr, Julia, 275–78, 282

  Seddon, Richard John, 104–8, 112–14, 123, 124, 385n91, 385n97, 385n100, 388n137

  Seeley, J. R.: Ecce Homo, 137

  Senior, Jane Nassau, 40, 50, 51, 71, 368n67

  Sermon on the Mount, 18, 145, 164, 22, 260, 288–90, 301, 311, 327, 329

  servants, 105, 156, 267, 268, 371–72, 418n45; household, 75, 93; Lesters’, 44, 60, 61, 63, 155, 156, 230; view of the poor, 156. See also Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants

  sexology, 243, 244, 245, 246, 411n139; and Christian psychology, 246–47

  sexuality: and same-sex desire, 3, 20, 218, 237–52; and Tolstoy, 140

  Shaftesbury, Lord (7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley-Cooper), 81–82

  Shaw, George Bernard, 67, 89, 143, 160, 393n27

  Simple Life, 68, 140, 141

  sisterhood, 2, 13, 66, 76, 135, 284, 348

  slavery: compared to white exploitation, 36, 86

  Sloan, Caroline (“Aunt Carrie”), 26, 28, 77, 108, 174

  Sloan, David, 26–28, 108

  Sloan, Harriet (“Granny”), 25, 26, 28, 31, 77, 108, 165, 174, 180, 245, 300, 356n108

  Sloan, Hugh, 26, 28, 386n108

  slum dwellers/slums, 25, 66, 70, 95, 136, 137, 157–58, 165, 183, 204, 269, 341, 396–97n78

  slumming, 101, 134, 154, 159, 394n34

  slum motherhood, 32–39; and the Poor Law, 32–46

  Smith, Dr. F. J., 189, 198–99

  Snell, Harry (First Baron Snell), 127–28

  Social Democratic Federation (SDF), 179, 278

  socialism, 3, 50, 67, 79, 86, 123, 133, 135, 146, 147, 150, 259, 278, 286, 296; Christian, 146, 223, 246; ethical, 135; evolutionary, 86; roots of, 259

  spiritu
alism: and Arthur Conan Doyle, 212

  spirituality, 18, 137, 185, 186, 205, 212–16, 219, 339

  sports, and girls 71, 72, 72, 374n135; bicycling and feminism, 66, 174, 202, 379n134

  Stansfield, James, 40

  Stead, William T., 84, 85, 89, 130

  Stein, Gertrude, 226–28, 253

  Stevenson, Lilian, 293

  St. Leonard’s, education of girls at, 70–74, 252, 375nn154 and 156. See also Lester, Doris; Lester, Muriel

  Strachey, Lady Jane, 282, 286

  Strachey, Lytton, 262

  Strachey, Oliver, 282

  Strachey, Philippa (“Pippa”), 275, 283–85

  Strachey, Ray, 282, 284

  Stubbs, Right Rev. Charles, 289

  suffrage/suffragettes, 67, 123, 145, 168, 185, 201, 204, 207, 210, 274–76, 279–84, 286, 287, 296. See also Federation of Suffragettes; London Society for Women’s Suffrage; National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies; United Suffragists; Women’s Freedom League

  Sunday School Committee (Loughton Union Church), 163

  Tagore, Rabindranath, 121, 215–17, 292, 294, 330, 407n88; Gitanjali, 216; One Hundred Poems of Kabîr, 215–16

  Tawney, Richard Henry: The Acquisitive Society, 322

  temperance, 4, 446, 162, 271, 384n85. See also Women’s Christian Temperance Union

  Theosophy, 86, 90, 100, 136, 136–37, 145. See also Besant, Annie; Blavatsky, Helena

  Thompson, Rev. Peter, 91, 154, 381n43, 396n63

  Thompson, Rosalie, 286. See also Thompson, Peter

  Toil and Trust (Clara Balfour), 46, 47, 63, 75

  Tolstoi Settlement, 269, 418–19n46

  Tolstoy, Leo, 1, 136, 139, 140, 140–43, 145, 153, 162, 164, 165, 182, 183, 210, 223, 229, 294, 297, 309–11; influence of the Sermon on the Mount on, 289

  Toynbee Hall, 50, 53, 55, 144, 22, 274; purpose of, 267

  trade policies, 385n91; global, 119; imperial, 10

  trade unionism, 79, 90, 100, 276, 278; women’s, 2, 276, 278

  transparency, 12, 316, 317, 320, 331, 338–39

  Trinity House, 31, 102, 386n108

  truancy officers, 83

  True Story of My Life: A Sketch (Andersen), 81

  Underhill, Evelyn, 144, 145, 213, 216, 218, 294, 394n40; Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Men’s Spiritual Consciousness, 214; One Hundred Poems of Kabîr, 215–16; Practical Mysticism: A Little Book For Normal People, 214–15

  United Suffragists, 282

  vegetarianism, 68; at Kingsley Hall, 340

  Vicinus, Martha: on women’s friendships, 238

  Vivekananda, Swami, 216, 217

  voluntary poverty, 3, 299, 318–22, 338

  Von Ronge, Johannes and Bertha, 29

  Voysey, Charles Cowles, 331, 332, 432n3

  Waiwera, 10, 110, 111, 112, 131, 390–91n189

  Walke, Rev. Bernard, 288, 299, 300

  Wallas, Graham, 89

  Wanstead College, 67, 68

  war, 3, 4, 6, 20, 219–26, 228, 299; alternatives to, 260; global, 312; and pacifism, 275. See also Anglo-Boer War; feminism; World War I

  Waugh, Rev. Benjamin, 79, 267, 287

  Webb, Beatrice Potter, 178, 181

  Webb, Sidney (1st Baron Passfield), 89, 178, 181, 224

  Wellington Match Factory Union, 112

  Wellock, Wilfred, 288, 296, 300, 318; influences on, 294

  Whipps, Alice (“Al”), 348, 349, 351, 434n34

  white “slaves”: workers as, 86, 96, 371–72n105

  Whitechapel Poor Law casual ward, 144

  Whitechaperl Poor Law institutions, 10, 144, 187, 200, 238

  Wilde, Oscar: The Happy Prince, 84

  Wilson Wilson, Theodora, 288, 295, 296, 300

  world citizenship, 3, 294, 295, 297, 330

  Woman’s Dreadnought, 286

  Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 124

  women’s colleges, 41

  Women’s Freedom League, 280, 281

  women’s friendships, 237–52, 411n138; intimate, 237; mateship, 243; romantic, 237; seraphic, 239. See also gay, as term; lesbianism; queerness; same-sex desire

  Women’s Meetings, 167, 168, 265, 267, 270, 275, 421n75

  Women’s Peace Conference/Hague Conference, 283–84

  Women’s Social and Political Union (WPSU), 280

  Woolf, Virginia, 13, 15, 156, 247, 260, 328, 430n218

  workhouse, 21, 39, 41, 46, 47, 50, 55, 89, 180, 181, 194, 200, 235, 303, 371–72n105. See also New Poor Law; Poor Law

  World War I / Great War, 16, 18, 45, 79, 126, 135–37, 143, 145, 149, 150, 184, 204, 212, 226, 258, 260, 275, 276, 278, 280, 282, 283, 288, 296, 297, 300, 328, 415n7; and Braeside Hospital, 219–20, 220

  “yellow peril”: and New Zealand, 110

  Zenana Mission, 182, 183, 401n144

  zeppelin raids, 309

 

 

 


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