Late-nineteenth-century Britain saw the privileged classes forsake
society balls and gatherings to turn their considerable resources
to investigating and relieving poverty. By the 1890s at least half
a million women were involved in philanthropy, particularly in
London. "Slum Travelers", edited, annotated, and with a superb
introduction by Ellen Ross, collects a fascinating array of the
writings of these "lady explorers," who were active in the east,
south, and central London slums from around 1870 until the end of
World War I. Contributors range from the well known, including
Annie Besant, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Beatrice Webb (then Potter), to
the obscure. The collection reclaims an important group of writers
whose representations of urban poverty have been eclipsed by
better-known male authors such as Charles Dickens and Jack London.
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