Slumming

Home > Other > Slumming > Page 59
Slumming Page 59

by Koven, Seth

Shoreditch, 256; as tourist destination, 1

  Showalter, Elaine: on male club land, 357n23

  Simmons, Mary, 201–202

  Simon, John, 185

  “simple life,” 127; and Carpenter, 235; at Toynbee Hall, 257

  Sims, George R., 152; on bohemianism of male journalists, 61; on Daddy, 64; as editor of Living London, 171; on Elizabeth Banks, 140; slum journalism of, 158

  Sinfield, Alan: on aestheticism and sexual queerness, 364n95

  Sing, Edith: on women’s settlements, 198

  Sins of the Cities of the Plain (1881), 269

  sisterhood. See cross-class sisterhood

  slum lassies: of Salvation Army, 7

  slum novels: by women, 204–205; women reformers’ responses to, 205. See also Lee, Vernon; Meade, Mrs. L. T.; Miss Brown; Princess of the Gutter, A

  slum priests: in Church of England, 255; in East London, 243; ritualism of, 255; sexual and gender identification of, 262; sexuality of, 3

  slummers: psychology of, 6; socioeconomic background of, 10–11

  slumming, 2; and aestheticism, 208; and Barnardo, 109–110; as bourgeois privilege, 9; casual, 8; consequences of, 6; definition of, 6; disavowal of, 8, 9, 179, 288; in disguise, 13 (see also incognito slumming); in 1880s, 15; as elite entertainment, 5, 7; by elite women, 198; Elizabeth Banks on, 161; and empirical sociology, 285; as entertainment, 1; ethics of, 14; as fad, 259; fashionable, 6–8; historical sources about, 12; journalistic, by Banks, 148;necessity of, for Victorians, 3; pleasures of, 9, 183; perjorative connotations of, 7; reading as, 216; and scientific charity, 58; scope of, 1; and sexual subjectivity, 4; social contexts of, 11; and social investigation, 5; and social knowledge, 5; and social policy, 4, 67; sociological, 13; twentieth century legacy of, 282; uses of, by elites, 5; and women, 7–8, 183, 189, 222

  slums: contrasting images of, 4; exoticization of, 4; as queer space in People of the Abyss, 82; as spaces of freedoms for the elites, 5; as tourist sites, 1, 8, 80

  Smeaton, John: on “A Night,” 48

  Smith, Hubert Llewelyn, 265–266

  Snow, John: on causes of cholera, 40

  Social Democratic Federation, 208, 234

  social housekeeping, 191; by women, 186; women reformers on, 222

  social policy: formulation of, by women, 185–186, 188–189, 196–197, 222, 224– 226, 285–286; formulation of, by men, 153, 231, 279–280, 286–287; and homelessness, 19, 33–34, 49–50, 54–59, 67, 73 (see also Metropolitan Houseless Poor Act); on homosexuality, 19, 72–73; on lodging houses, 42; and “A Night,” 30–31, 36; and public baths, 40; role of press in, 27, 51, 161, 169; and slumming, 1, 5. See also child welfare; New Journalism; New Poor Law; workhouse infirmaries

  social purity, 138; Barnardo as champion of, 112; Hopkins on, 16; and women, 204; and Winnington Ingram, 260

  Social Science Congress: Barnardo’s address to, 100

  social work: class basis of, 225; emergence of, 225; as female profession, 152; profession of, 224

  Socialist League, 208, 243

  Society of the Divine Compassion: and Adderley, 2

  Society of Women Journalists, 335n37

  sociology: as academic discipline, 225; empirical, pioneers of, 11, 169; language of, 164; and women, 11, 13, 164–167, 169

  sodomy: in convict colonies, 43; in Barnardo’s boys’ home, 109; Frederick Greenwood on, 47; in Lambeth casual ward, 27, 43, 63; policing of, 307n53; in poor houses, 43; as unmentionable vice, 56

  “Soul of Man Under Socialism” (1881): and Oscar Wilde’s criticism of philanthropy, 370n163

  South Africa, 196

  South London Journal: on “A Night,” 69

  Spencer, Herbert: as Potter’s mentor, 13

  Spender, J. A., 250

  spinster, 178, 219; and Banks, 147; connotations of, 147; in novels by Henry James, 214; public work of, 186; in the slums, 203; Virginia Woolf on, 183. See also “glorified spinster”

  stage censorship of The Casual Ward, 52

  Stallard, J. H.: on female casual wards, 54, 186

  Stanley, Ellen: casual ward investigations by, 54, 186–187

  Stanley, Mrs. H. M., 131

  Stanley, Maude, 198

  Stanton, Rev. Arthur Henry, 255

  state inspection: of casual wards, 45; of common lodging houses, 42; inadequacy of, 46

  Stead, William Thomas, 269; on gender roles of journalists, 154; and “Maiden Tribute,” 27, 130, 221; on “A Night,” 36; on slumming, 8; on white slavery, 158

  Steedman, Carolyn: on flower and water cress girls, 169; on health visiting, 197

  Stevens, Mrs.: and dirt, 194

  Stocks, Mary Danvers, 204

  Strand Magazine, 215

  “street arabs,” 89; as synonym for homeless people, 61; Wilde’s interest in, 269

  stunt girls: in New York City, 157

  Sturgis, Howard: and James, 351n104

  submerged tenth: as social category, 11

  Sue, Eugène, 38

  suffrage: democratization of, in 1866, 35

  Sunday Magazine, 215

  surveillance: photographic, 130; of poor, 80, 130, 192, 199; technologies of, in charity, 98, 114, 117, 130

  sweated labor, 169; in London, 167; in New York, 148

  Symonds, John Addington: on dislike of word “homosexual,” 314n150; on ethics of cross-class love and sex between men, 71–72, 372n180; and Lee, 208; as reader of “A Night,” 70; and sexology, 87; and sexual autobiography, 72; and sexual slumming, 70; and Toynbee Hall, 275; tramps in poems by, 314n158

  Symonds, Katherine, 188

  sympathy: and Barnardo’s photographs, 130; and Davies, 58; Hyndman on, 9; Loch on, 101; and shame, 4. See also moral imagination

  Tagg, John, 130

  Talbot, Rev. Edward

  Talbot, Lavinia (Mrs. Edward), 242, 243

  Tawney, Richard Henry, 273, 288

  “Tempted London” (1888–89), 166–167

  Tennant, Dorothy (Mrs. H. M. Stanley), 131

  Thatcher, Margaret, 282

  Thesinger, Alfred, 105, 112

  Third Reform Bill (1884), 152

  Thomson, Kit Anstruther, 214

  Tillet, Ben, 2

  Tillyard, Anna, 203

  Tillyard, Fanny, 203

  Times (of London): and Barnardo arbitration, 112; on “A Night,” 49; on philanthropy and depravity, 88

  Tirebuck, William, 162

  Tooley, Sarah, 156

  tourism, in slums, 1, 8, 80

  Toynbee, Arnold, 243; on capital and labor, 239; and Hinton, 17

  Toynbee Hall, 21, 153, 230–231, 236, 248, 268; and aestheticism, 259; architecture of, 274; and Ashbee, 264, 266, 269; and Balliol College, Oxford, 254; cross-class brotherhood at, 229; Elizabethan Literary Society of, 275; founding of, 238; Harkness on, 257; housekeeping at, 245; interior decoration of, 246–247; irreligion at, 251; Lansbury’s criticisms of, 286; and masculinity, 240; opening of, 244; as residential colony, 237; and Ruskin, 250; sexual dissidence at, 263; as tourist destination, 8; women’s roles at, 249

  Toynbee Record, 272

  trade unionism: and matchgirls, 162; women’s, 163

  Trafalgar Square: free speech demonstrations in, 236; male prostitution in, 86

  tramp subculture, 61, 67; and homosexuality, 83

  Trevelyan, Charles, 59

  Treves, Frederick, 126–128

  Trollope, Anthony, 32

  true narratives: evangelical, 95–97

  Trumbull, H. Clay: on friendship, 263

  Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens), 129

  Twining, Louisa, 31, 186, 305n38

  typing: as female profession, 152

  Uncommercial Traveller (Dickens): and “A Night,” 35

  undercover investigation, 11, 19, 142

  unemployment: and masculinity, 72

  university extension: East London branch of, at London Hospital, 126; at Toynbee Hall, 273

  university settlements, 7. See also settlement movement; women’s settlements

&n
bsp; vagrancy: Andrew Doyle’s report on (1865), 56; COS on, 59–60; Higgs on, 188–189; history of, by Ribton-Turner, 60; Interdepartmental Committee on, 189; state regulation of (see Metropolitan Houseless Poor Act; Vagrancy Act); Villiers on, 56; Williams on, 82. See also homelessness; tramp subculture

  Vagrancy Act (1898), 73, 285, 316n173

  Vanderbilt, Consuela, 170

  vestrymen: in Lambeth, 54–55; and local poor relief, 33–34, 75

  Vicinus, Martha, 218

  Victoria Magazine for Women: on women’s workhouse visiting, 34

  Victoria Park: in East London, 127

  Victoria, Queen, 232

  Victorianism: politics of, 282

  Villiers, Charles Pelham: on vagrancy, 56

  voluntarism, 235; and social policy, 89

  voluntary poverty, 190

  Wagner, Gillian, 92

  Wakeman, Annie, 156

  Ward, Mrs. Humphry (Mary): as anti-suffragist, 150; as New Womannovelist, 220

  Waugh, Benjamin, 216

  Webb, Beatrice: on Poor Laws, 33; as trouser fitter, 156

  Webb, Sidney: on Poor Laws, 33

  Weekly Sun, 160; Banks’s articles in Weldon, Maud: on free union with Howard Hinton, 17

  welfare monarchy, 232

  welfare state, 89, 129, 132; male settlers as architects of, 231, 286–288; and women, 196–197, 204, 225

  Wells, Ida B.: and anti-lynching, 176

  Wesley, Rev. John, 95

  West London: East End invasion of, 76

  West London Mission, 200, 202

  Westminster Review, 151

  Whitechapel, 17, 163, 237, 240, 249; as slumming epicenter, 7; as tourist destination, 1; as tourist site, 8

  Whitechapel Picture Exhibitions, 241, 245

  Whitman, Walt, 235; criticisms of, 239; English admirers of, 263

  Wilde, Oscar, 213, 230; and Adderley, 2, 257; aftermath of trial of, 221; and Headlam, 257; Lee on, 208; trial of, 72

  Williams, Elizabeth: background of, 123; and Barnardo, 122; children of, 133; testimony of, 125

  Williams, Raymond, 86; on exile and vagrancy, 82

  Williams, William, 65, 66

  Williamson, Rev. Joe, 194

  Wilson, John: on redesign of workhouse space, 56

  Wilton, F. C., 52

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

  Winnington Ingram, Rev. Arthur Foley: and Ashbee, 276–277; as bishop of London, 263, 276; description of, 261–262; Ernest Aves’ comments about, 262; on faith and work, 251; at Oxford House Club, 277–278; on sexual purity, 260; and working class boys, 265

  Woman at Home, The, 171

  womanliness, 150, 154, 155; debate about, 174; and Meade, 215; and suffrage, 224

  women: and magazines and periodicals, 151

  women journalists: employment opportunities for, 152; in New York, 157; as social investigators, 20; topics covered by, 154

  Women Writers’ Suffrage Association, 176

  women’s colleges: Banks on, 175–176; founding of, in 1860s, 187; Mrs. Meade on, 215; in the U.S., 173

  women’s settlements, 191–192, 198, 200–204; and Canning Town Women’s Settlement, 203; Lady Margaret Hall Settlement, 202; St. Hilda’s, 201, 249; St. Margaret’s, 201, 249; social rituals of, 202

  women’s suffrage: Banks’s criticism of, 149; Banks’s support for, 176; campaign for, 224; in Great Britain, 150

  Women’s Trade Union League, 164

  Women’s University Settlement: Helen Gladstone at, 10

  women’s work: and Banks, 140–142; 146, 158–160, 163–169; Black on, 164–166; and Harkness, 166–169; and sexual danger, 164

  Wontner, St. John, 132; and Barnardo Arbitration, 120; on Williams’s photograph, 124

  Woods, Robert: on artificiality of men’s settlement houses, 249; on Toynbee Hall, 246

  Woolf, Virginia: on Vernon Lee, 221; on spinsters, 183

  Worby, John: and tramp memoir, 85

  workhouse: in Bethnal Green, 35; in Greenwich, 53; in Holborn, 25; in Mile End, 53–54; in Poplar, 49; regulation clothing in, 41; in Stepney, 51; in Whitechapel, 54

  workhouse casuals: mistreatment of, 34; perspectives of, 65–67; racialized images of, 61; survival strategies of, 68

  workhouse clothing, 65; tearing up of, 69

  workhouse diet, 41

  workhouse infirmaries: Lancet campaign about, 25, 63; reform of, 47

  Workhouse Visiting Society, 34, 186

  Working Men’s College, 208, 266; founding of, 233; in London, 234; Munby at, 185

  Wragge, Muriel, 191, 226, 227

  Wragge, Stella, 191

  “Wrens of the Curragh,” 31

  Writers’ Club, 152

  Yates, Edmund, 152

  Yellow Book, 153

  yellow journalism, 147, 174

  Young India: Royden as reader of, 195

  Young Woman, 156, 215

  Zelizer, Viviana, 132

  Zola, Émile, 209

 

 

 


‹ Prev