Workhouse Characters
by Margaret Wynne Nevinson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Nevinson, Margaret Wynne
- Title
- Workhouse Characters, and other sketches of the life of the poor.
- Credits
- Produced by sp1nd, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare
- Subject
- Workhouses -- England -- London
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 40881
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40881
- Release Date
- September 28, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.WORKHOUSE CHARACTERS AND OTHER SKETCHES OF THE LIFE OF THE POOR BY MARGARET WYNNE NEVINSON
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.EUNICE SMITH—DRUNK
- 5.DETAINED BY MARITAL AUTHORITY
- 6.A WELSH SAILOR
- 7.THE VOW
- 8.BLIND AND DEAF
- 9."AND, BEHOLD, THE BABE WEPT"
- 10."MARY, MARY, PITY WOMEN!"
- 11.THE SUICIDE
- 12.PUBLICANS AND HARLOTS
- 13.OLD INKY
- 14.A DAUGHTER OF THE STATE
- 15.IN THE PHTHISIS WARD
- 16.AN IRISH CATHOLIC
- 17.AN OBSCURE CONVERSATIONIST
- 18.MOTHERS
- 19."YOUR SON'S YOUR SON"
- 20."TOO OLD AT FORTY"
- 21.IN THE LUNATIC ASYLUM
- 22.THE SWEEP'S LEGACY
- 23.AN ALIEN [1] — FOOTNOTE:
- 24."WIDOWS INDEED"
- 25.THE RUNAWAY
- 26."A GIRL! GOD HELP HER!"
- 27.ON THE PERMANENT LIST
- 28.THE PAUPER AND THE OLD-AGE PENSION [2] — FOOTNOTE:
- 29.THE EVACUATION OF THE WORKHOUSE
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