The Match Girl and the Heiress / / Seth Koven.
Nellie Dowell was a match factory girl in Victorian London who spent her early years consigned to orphanages and hospitals. Muriel Lester, the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder, longed to be free of the burden of money and possessions. Together, these unlikely soulmates sought to remake the world ac...
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Koven, Seth, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Match Girl and the Heiress / Seth Koven. Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015] ©2016 1 online resource (464 p.) : 79 halftones. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Victorian Childhoods and Two Victorian Children -- CHAPTER TWO. Capitalism, from Below and Down Under THE GLOBAL TRAFFIC IN MATCHES AND MATCH GIRLS -- CHAPTER THREE. "Being a Christian" in Edwardian Britain -- CHAPTER FOUR. Body Biographies in War and Peace -- CHAPTER FIVE. Love and Christian Revolution -- Manuscripts and Archival Collections -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Nellie Dowell was a match factory girl in Victorian London who spent her early years consigned to orphanages and hospitals. Muriel Lester, the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder, longed to be free of the burden of money and possessions. Together, these unlikely soulmates sought to remake the world according to their own utopian vision of Christ's teachings. The Match Girl and the Heiress paints an unforgettable portrait of their late-nineteenth-century girlhoods of wealth and want, and their daring twentieth-century experiments in ethical living in a world torn apart by war, imperialism, and industrial capitalism.In this captivating book, Seth Koven chronicles how each traveled the globe-Nellie as a spinster proletarian laborer, Muriel as a well-heeled tourist and revered Christian peacemaker, anticolonial activist, and humanitarian. Koven vividly describes how their lives crossed in the slums of East London, where they inaugurated a grassroots revolution that took the Sermon on the Mount as a guide to achieving economic and social justice for the dispossessed. Koven shows how they devoted themselves to Kingsley Hall-Gandhi's London home in 1931 and Britain's first "people's house" founded on the Christian principles of social sharing, pacifism, and reconciliation-and sheds light on the intimacies and inequalities of their loving yet complicated relationship.The Match Girl and the Heiress probes the inner lives of these two extraordinary women against the panoramic backdrop of shop-floor labor politics, global capitalism, counterculture spirituality, and pacifist feminism to expose the wounds of poverty and neglect that Christian love could never heal. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) Feminists Great Britain Biography. Great Britain Social conditions 20th century. Women social reformers Great Britain Biography. HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665925 print 9780691171319 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400865420?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400865420 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400865420.jpg |
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