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Slumming

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by Koven, Seth


  gentleman, 28, 42, 45, 168, 234. See also manliness; masculinity

  George Yard Ragged School, Whitechapel, 96

  girls: Meade on, 216; education of, 216

  Girton College, Cambridge, 174, 216

  Gladstone, Helen: as head of Women’s University Settlement, 10

  Gladstone, William, 10, 26, 94, 123

  Glasier, Katharine Bruce: on dirt, 347n44 “glorified spinster,” 199, 224

  Glover, Montagu: photographic archive of, 330n127

  Gordon, Gen. Charles, 173

  Gordon, George William: and Jamaica, 62

  Gore, Rev. Charles, 251

  Gore, Fred: on Oxford House, 280

  Gore-Booth, Eva, 203

  Gower, Lord Ronald Sutherland: and sexual slumming, 71

  Grant, Clara: at Toynbee Hall, 363n86

  Greater London Council: abolition of, 282

  Green, John Richard, 240; on women charity workers, 361n54

  Green, Thomas Hill, 15; and settlements, 239–240, 360n50

  Greenhall, David, 53

  Greenwood, Frederick: on Barnardo, 113; editorial by, on casual wards, 47; and Lancet, 34, 302n6; and “A Night,” 308n73; on officials’ incompetence, 309n79; and Pall Mall Gazette, 25, 31, 32; as reformer, 51

  Greenwood, James, 19, 25–55, 56, 59–72, 74–77, 80–87, 109, 152, 161, 186; on advertisements for young male companions, 309n74; and Arnold, 75; and Banks, 157–158, 177; and bathing, 39– 41; and Bittlestone, 36; costume of, 37; ethics of, 284; as hero of poor, 55; on juvenile vagrants, 90; and Kay, 44; literary production of, 31, 60; on prostitution, 31; and race, 62; and “Real Casual,” 67; social background of, 10, 31; on Sodom and sodomy, 43, 285; theatricality of, 64; on Wrens of Curragh, 31, 304n24

  Grenfell, Wilfred, 126–127, 252

  Grey, George, 62; midnight inspection by, 49

  Gruner, Alice, 208

  guardsmen: and male prostitution in London, 70–71

  Guild and School of Handicraft, 230, 265–268, 277

  Guild of the Brave Poor Things, 35, 201

  Gull, Cyril: on slumming by novelists, 295–296n24

  Haddon, Caroline, 16

  Hall, Catherine: on separate spheres, 345n10

  Halsted, Denis, 127

  Halttunen, Karen: on “pornography of pain,” 121

  Hamilton, Ernest, 135

  Hancorne, John: accusations by, against Barnardo’s Homes, 108; deposition of, 121

  Hansard, Rev. Septimus, 256

  Harkness, Margaret, 163; and Captain Lobe, 218; as critic of capitalism, 169; as critic of philanthropy, 167; as editor of “Tempted London,” 166; as glorified spinster, 199; as journalist, 178; on Lambeth casual ward, 65; on Oxford House and Toynbee Hall, 259; scholarship about, 340n96; and sex, 167; slum journalism of, 141; social background of, 197

  Harmsworth, Alfred, 194

  Haroun al Raschid, 61

  Harris, José: on two class models, 297n34

  Hart, Ernest: biographical information about, 301n1; on workhouse infirmaries, 25, 34

  Haweis, Mrs. H. R.: on the American girl, 172

  Hazlewood, Colin: The Casual Ward (1866), 52

  Headlam, Rev. Stewart, 256; marriage of, 257; and Oscar Wilde, 257

  Hearst, William Randolph, 146

  hedonism: philanthropic, 16

  Hellenism: and homosexuality, 357n100

  Hendrick, Harry: on poor children as victims and threats, 325n70

  Hennock, E. P.: on periodization of history of social thought, 304n18

  Henson, Rev. Herbert Hensley, 249

  Hertzog, J.B.M.: and South Africa, 280

  heterodox sexuality: men’s, 259, 279. See also homoeroticism; homosexuality; same-sex desire, male; same-sex desire, between women; sexual dissidence heterosexuality, 199–201, 275

  Hicks, John, 144

  Higgs, Mary: on dirt, 217; and sex, 189; use of incognito by, 188–189

  High Anglicanism: of Oxford House, 21

  High Churchmanship: at Keble College, 242; at Oxford House, 260, 268

  Higher Criticism, 250

  Hill, Alsager Hay, 91

  Hill, Octavia: and COS, 59, 100; on homes of the poor, 197; and Oxford House, 242

  Hilton, Marie: on virtues of the poor, 346n32

  Himmelfarb, Gertrude: on Barnardo, 89, 319n5; and neo-victorianism, 89; on Toynbee Hall, 374n199

  Hinton, Howard: scandal surrounding, 17

  Hinton, James, 14–18; on altruism, 179; on class-mixing, 15; disciples of, 16; on eros and altruism, 14; followers of, 17; and Metaphysical Society, 299n46; opacity of, 17; posthumous rumors about, 17; and Ruskin, 299n49; sexual and social ethics of, 15; social ethics of, 15; on slumming, 14; on women’s sexual needs, 15

  Hinton, Margaret, 16, 298n45

  Hobhouse, Rosa Waugh: on housework, 190

  Hobhouse, Stephen, 190

  Hodson, Alice Lucy: on dirt, 192, 193, 196, 198, 217

  Holland, Rev. George, 96

  Holland, Rev. Henry Scott, 248: Walter Carey’s admiration for, 289; on rough London, 252–254; on Ruskin, 233; on slum squalor, 253

  home economics, 225

  homeless poor: removal of, from streets, 34

  homelessness: government policies on, 67; and homosexuality, 19, 73, 86; Oxford House shelter for, 243. See also Metropolitan Houseless Poor Act; “Night in a Workhouse, A”; vagrancy

  homoeroticism: and aestheticism, 250; among women, 203; cross-class, 70; and cross-class brotherhood, 239; in Down and Out, 83–84; and men’s settlement house movement, 260; and men’s slumming, 269; in People of the Abyss; and “A Night,” 44, 46, 70; and poetry, 271; at Toynbee Hall, 263; and women slum reformers

  homogenic passion, 219

  homophobia: in Orwell’s Down and Out, 84; in Worby’s The Other Half, 86

  homosexuality: case study of, 275; criminalization of, 72; and homelessness, 19, 31; as sexological category, 274; and sexology, 276; and tramp sub–culture, 83–84

  homosocial institutions, 83, 234; for men, 152, 229, 248, 259; for women, 152, 192, 196, 201, 203

  homosociality: Eve Sedgwick on, 370n162

  Hopkins, Ellice: on social purity, 16

  Houlbrook, Matt: on cross-class sex between men, 319n215; on queer London, 308n63

  housekeeping: and philanthropic women, 190; urban, 10

  housing reformers: women as, 191

  Housman, A. E., 271, 272

  How, Rev. William Walsham, 242

  Howlett, Carole, 134

  Hoxton, 190, 218, 226, 227

  Hughes, Mary, 191; on poverty, 190

  Hughes, Thomas, 190

  humanitarianism, 130; of Exeter Hall, 62; sensibility of, 121

  Humphrey, Mrs., 154

  Huxley, Aldous, 226

  Hyde Park: demonstrations in, of laundresses, 165

  hygiene: taboos surrounding, 40

  Hyndman, Henry Myers, 301n64; on slumming, 8; on women’s philanthropy, 201

  hysteria, 153, 223; and college girls, 171

  Image, Selwyn: on “St. Barnett,” 359n44

  imperial manhood: historiography of, 375n202

  imperialism: and adventure, in James Greenwood’s writings, 61; and Carey, in South Africa, 279–280; domestic, 283; and Jamaica, 62–63; and Morant, 254; and slumming, 21

  impurity: among men, 168

  “In the Bath” (Doré), 78–80

  incarnational theology: at Oxford House, 251

  incest: in Miss Brown, 211; in one-room tenements, 158

  incognito: and investigative journalism, 61; Stanley’s use of, 54; as tool of social investigation, 38. See also disguise

  incognito slumming, 20, 76, 150; by Banks, 140–141, 145–146, 157–158, 166; by Charles Booth, 156; by Higgs, 188–189; by Jack London, 82; by Potter, 13

  indecent assault: policing of, 38

  Independent: and Barnardo, 89

  Independent Labour Party, 234

  India: English women’s philanthropic work in, 195–196; and Royden, 1
95

  Indian Civil Service, 254

  Ingilby, Sir Henry, 5

  Ingram, Arthur Foley Winnington. See Winnington Ingram, Rev. Arthur Foley

  Inland Medical Mission to China: of Hudson Taylor, 88

  International Congress of Women, 164

  interviewing: and gender, 151; rise of, as journalistic technique, 151

  inversion: psychological case study of, 275

  Ireland: prostitution in, 31

  Irish: emigration of, to London, 232, 255

  Jack the Ripper, 1, 128

  Jamaica: rebellion in (1865), 47, 62

  James, Henry: on the American girl, 171; on “passion” for charity, 5; and Vernon Lee, 206, 214, 215, 222. See also Princess Casamassima, The

  James, William, 206; on college settlements and empire, 21

  Jay, Rev. Arthur Osborne, 217, 255–257, 262; as depicted in A Child of the Jago, 367n121

  Jebb, Eglantyne, 135

  Jerome, Jennie, 170

  Jerrold, Blanchard, 74, 76–78

  Jerrold, Douglas, 152

  Jews: in London, 171; Potter disguised as, 13; sweated labor of, in New York City, 148; in Whitechapel, 272

  jingoism, 162

  “John Morden,” 70

  Jones, Rev. Harry: on slum philanthropy, 295n24

  journalism: American style, 141; and gender, 20, 141, 151, 153; as philanthropy, 160, 161; professional societies of, 152; rise of interview in, 151; sensational, 141; and slumming, 169; and women, 141; women in, according to Banks, 146

  journalists: as bohemians, 31; as philanthropists, 49; social authority of, 51, 155; as social observers, 48, 163–169

  Jowett, Benjamin, 254

  Kaplan, Morris, 269

  Katherine Buildings, 199; lady visitors to, 13

  Kay: Greenwood’s description of, 44; Greenwood’s relation to, 48; and “A Night,” 83, 86; as object of male same-sex desire, 72; Pitt as, 53; Symonds’s poem about, 71

  Kay, John P.: on sanitary reform, 184

  Kay-Shuttleworth, Sir John P. See Kay, John P.

  Keating, Peter: on “A Night,” 27, 362n7

  Keble College, Oxford, 242–243

  Keble, Rev. John, 232

  Kilburn, Rev. Ernest Edward, 263

  Kimmins, Charles W.: wedding ceremony of, 201

  Kimmins, Grace Hannam, 200; wedding ceremony of, 201

  King, Bolton: on women at Toynbee Hall, 249

  King, Rev. Edward, 243

  Kings College, Cambridge, 264

  Kingsley, Charles, 209

  Kingsley Hall, Bow, 196

  Kingsley, Mary: as anti-suffragist, 150

  Kipling, Rudyard, 129; on American society, 170; on American women, 172; William James on, 21

  Kirk, John, 32

  Knight-Bruce, Rev. G. W., 243

  Knott, Rachel, 135

  labor aristocracy: as social category, 11

  labor relations: and match girls, 165

  Labouchere amendment (1885), 72

  Labouchere, Henry: on Barnardo, 113

  Labour party, 287

  Ladies at Work, 152

  Ladies Sanitary Society, Manchester, 186

  lady bountiful, 20, 131

  Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 135, 192

  Lady Margaret Hall Settlement, 202. See also women’s settlements

  Lambert, Rev. Brooke, 228–229

  Lambeth casual ward, 26, 42, 163, 285; as brothel for men and boys, 47; Farnall’s inspection of, 311n103; James Greenwood’s account of, 36–46; queerness of, 48

  Lambeth: vestrymen of, 54–55

  Lancet, 34; and workhouse infirmaries, 25 Landscape for a Good Woman (Steedman, 1987), 197

  Lane, Christopher: on queer theory, 373n184

  Lang, Rev. Cosmo Gordon: on Oxford House and Toynbee Hall, 241, 251

  Langridge, Edith, 196

  Lansbury, George: as critic of slum philanthropy, 286; on Toynbee Hall, 286; on Toynbee Hall and Oxford House, 286–287

  laundresses: Banks on, 165–166

  laundry trade: Banks on, 165; conditions in, 150, 166; politics of, 165

  Laurie, Arthur, 265, 266

  Lee, Vernon, 205, 222; bohemianism of, 205; as critic of aestheticism, 213; diary of, 209, 223; on dirt, 208; and Henry James, 214; on morbid, 209; on novel as genre, 209; on Oscar Wilde, 208; social background of, 206

  Legge, Hugh: on rough lads, 265

  lesbianism: hiddenness of, 221; and Vernon Lee, 213; subculture of, in London, 214

  Leslie, Marion, 156

  Lester, Doris: on dirt, 190

  Lester, Muriel: on East End Poverty, 189; on Olive Schriner, 205; as pacifist and internationalist, 195; radicalism of, 190, 196

  Levy, Amy, 163, 208, 298n43

  Liddell, Alice: as photographic subject, 118

  Lidgett, Rev. John Scott, 201, 202

  Light, Alison, 235

  Lima, Peru: Banks in, 144–145

  Link: and London matchgirls, 162; slumming condemned by, 8

  Linton, Eliza Lynn, 208

  living wage, 196

  Lloyd George, David: and slumming, 1 Lloyd’s Weekly: on Barnardo’s Arbitration, 129; and Blanchard Jerrold, 77

  Loane, Martha Jane, 194

  local government: and amateur ideals, 38; incompetence of, 55; women in, 187

  localism: in poor relief, 34

  Loch, Charles, 91; charity according to, 101; Christian and scientific principles of, 100–101

  Locket, Winifred, 202

  lodging houses: abuses in, 67; incognito investigation of, 88; as licensed casual wards, 55; sexual license in, 42

  London: Americanization of, 171–172; anxieties about local government in, 35; dirtiness of, 185; in 1866, 32–35; ethnic groups in, 171; government of, and Metropolitan Asylums Board, 63; government of, and uniform rates, 67; Harkness’s representation of, 167–168; as imperial metropolis, 35; importance of, 35, 306n44; lesbian subculture of, 214; local government in, 55; local government structure of, 305n35; as mystery, 38; Oxford’s obligation to, 10; political and sexual economy of, 168; sexual dangers of, for young people, 166; as sexual vortex, 168

  London: A Pilgrimage (1872), 76–80

  London County Council (LCC): care committees of, 225; inspectors of, 11; and male settlers’ roles in, 231

  London Daily News: on workhouses as public brothels, 55–56

  London High Society: Banks’s exposé on, 170

  London Hospital, 126, 127, 128

  London, Jack, 74, 80, 180; manliness of, 81; and photography, 143; as slum explorer, 27; use of documentary photography by, 331n6

  London Life and Labour, 27

  London Observer: on sensational journalism, 51

  London Review: on “A Night,” 26

  London Zoo, 127

  Lowder, Rev. Charles, 94, 255

  Lux Mundi (1889), 251

  lynching: Banks’s defense of, 176

  Macadam, Elizabeth, 203

  McClintock, Anne: on anachronistic space, 312n120

  McIntosh, William, 69

  McKinley, William, 146, 149

  McMillan, Margaret, 185, 203, 288; and child welfare, 197

  McMillan, Rachel, 203

  Macpherson, Annie, 96

  magazines: evangelical, 151; for women, 151

  “Maiden Tribute,” 130; as press sensation, 27

  male breadwinner, 61, 73

  male casuals: eroticization of, 80; visual images of, 28, 78. See also workhouse casuals

  male sexual violence: against women, 187; Higg’s fear of, 189

  Malthus, Rev. Thomas: political economic principles of, 57

  Malvery, Olive Christian, 180

  “Man with the Twisted Lip, The” (Conan Doyle, 1892), 61

  Manchester: as industrial shock-city, 35

  Manchester Statistical Society: report by, on public baths, 40

  “manly man:” at Oxford House, 252; Dolling as, 257

  manliness: bourgeois, 240, 252, 254; Christian, according to Scott
Holland, 253; debates about, 174; and unemployment, 73

  Manning, Rev. Henry Edward, 2

  Mansfield House, 203

  Marcella, 220

  Marks, Bernard Samuel, 117

  marriage: among slum workers at Bermondsey settlement, 200; freedom from, 201; in Miss Brown, 212–213

  Martin, Anna, 201–203, 224; on dirt, 196

  Marx, Eleanor, 163

  Marx, Karl, 164

  masculinity: Adderley on, 2–3; Barnett’s vision of, 240; codes of, at Oxford House and Toynbee Hall, 248–259; in Doré’s image of the poor, 80; and economic independence, 61; of homeless men, 62; of male reformers, 229; at Toynbee Hall, 240; and unemployment, 72–73

  masquerades: cross-class, 141; Doré’s penchant for, 77; as workhouse casual, 53. See also incognito slumming

  mass press: of 1890s, 162; and Elizabeth Banks, 164

  masturbation: and blackmail, 166

  matchgirls: Black on, 165; and British Weekly, 167; and strike, 167, 339n87

  mateship: among poor men, 83–84; among women, 218

  Maurice, 220; representation of slum benevolence in, 275; role of settlement in, 275

  Maurice, Frederick Denison: and Carpenter, 235; on Chartism, 233; and Christian Socialism, 239, 242; on fraternity, 232; on social hierarchy, 233; theology of, 231

  Maurice Hostel, 218, 226

  Mayhew, Henry: on London destitution, 26; slum journalism of, 27

  Mayne, Sir Richard: inspection by, of casual wards, 49

  Meade, Mrs. L. T., 205; on dangers of social realism, 221; and evangelical charity, 216; on novels as genre, 216; as professional writer and editor, 215; reputation of, 220; as Ruskin’s “Queen,” 207; social background of, 215

  Mearns, Rev. Andrew: on slums, 27

  medical care: for the poor, 63

  Medical Inspection of School Children Act (1907), 132, 225, 228

  medievalism: in religious processions, 255; in Victorian culture, 235

  Men and Women’s Club: romances in, 300n62

  men’s clubs, 235

  Merrick, Joseph, 93, 124–129, 133; as object of metropolitan charity, 126; use of corpse of, 129

  Merrill, Fannie, 157

  Merrill, George, 235, 264

  Methodism: benevolent networks of, in London, 200

  Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants (MABYS), 193

  Metropolitan Asylums Board: creation of, in 1867, 63

  Metropolitan Houseless Poor Act (1864/5), 32, 49; and COS, 59; impact of, on behavior of homeless, 69; maladministration of, 66; violations of, 54

 

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