Religion and Relationships in Ragged Schools: An Intimate History of Educating the Poor, 1844-1870

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
A note on conventions
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Histories of childhood and of children
	Ragged histories
	An intimate history
	‘True as steel’: Martin Ware
1	‘The glory of god for its end’: the ragged school movement
	‘The solemn and stern realities’: setting the scene
	‘Never again forgotten class’: providing for ragged children
	‘A recognized social movement’: forging schools and histories
	‘Necessity knows no law’: means and mortar
	‘The sinews of our ragged school movement’: teachers and social class
	‘Her name graven at full length’: wives and women
	Conclusion
2	‘A real specimen of the street Arab’: constructing the ragged child
	‘Scarcely clothed’: rags, skin, and dirt
	‘Almost starving stomach’: hungry bodies
	‘The gait of a confirmed and incurable cripple’: diseaseand disability
	‘No father, no mother, no home’: ragged school families
	Conclusion
3 ‘Having a lark’: children and teachers in the classroom
	‘The worst court in the neighbourhood’: poverty and popery
	They ‘scared Mrs Ward out her wits’: performance in the classroom
	The burdens of Mr Berrington: classroom confrontations
	‘Why don’t you tell me how Mrs Ward is?’: the child’s part
	‘Sound shoes and a good umbrella’: playing the model teacher
	They ‘come for a lark’: engaging the audience
	Conclusion
4	‘But I like the boy’: Ware and the Compton Place boys
	‘I forgot to mention’: the journals, their audience, and their author
	‘He seems a regular blackguard’: making an impression
	‘Perhaps it’s because he is Irish’: Irishness in Compton Place
	‘I cannot see through him’: trust and distrust
	‘Wonderfully attached’: difficult boys and grateful men
	The ‘beast’ of Compton Place: alcohol, abuse, and ambiguity
	Conclusion
5	‘The only freind I have got’: the scholar-teacher relationship after school
	‘My sister is very much cut up’: absent scholars
	‘P.S. Excuse the bad writing if you please’: reading ragged school letters
	‘So good day Mr Ware’: salutations, valedictions, and negotiations
	‘One of there own’: projections and audiences
	‘To think you had not forgot me’: pasts and papers
	‘Gods eyes is on us’: the after-life of the ragged schools cholar
	‘Send mee a small trifle to get mee home’: material exchanges
	‘Oh I wish I could see Mr Ware’: developing relationships over letter
	Conclusion
‘Here ends this season’: conclusions
Appendix: Frederick Henderson’s poem
Bibliography
Index