College Honors Program
Date of Creation
5-2015
Document Type
Thesis
First Advisor
Therese McBride
Second Advisor
Andrew Futterman
Abstract
This thesis explores philanthropy in the emerging middle class of Victorian England through an examination of the London Charity Organization Society (COS). Poverty was seen as a critical social ailment in need of reform. The prevalence of a new secular morality, combined with the philosophy that local civic action should work in cooperation with government action, resulted in organized private and public charitable involvement to alleviate poverty..
Recommended Citation
Mahoney, Claire S. '15, "Approaches to Late Victorian Poverty – A Re-Examination of the London Charity Organization" (2015). College Honors Program. 6.
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/honors/6
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