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  3. In Darkest England and the Way Out
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2014
Print publication year:
2014
First published in:
1890
Online ISBN:
9781107449299
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107449299
Subjects:
Social and Population History, British History after 1450, History
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
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Book description

This classic work in the literature of poverty was published in 1890 by William Booth (1829–1912), the founder of the Salvation Army. It was in fact mostly written by the crusading journalist W. T. Stead (referred to as an anonymous 'friend of the poor' in Booth's preface), but the practical ideas for relieving the poverty and squalor of late Victorian British cities are all Booth's own. Reworking the cliché of 'Darkest Africa', in the first part he describes the 'submerged tenth' of Darkest England - destitute and/or criminal - and goes on to suggest the way to 'Deliverance', which includes better housing, education and training for work, and the sending of the urban poor to 'colonies', both overseas and in the British countryside. These proposals had their critics, but drew wide attention to an appalling aspect of urban life of which the prosperous classes were barely aware.

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