Lectures to ladies on practical subjects.
Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
Published: 1855
Place of publication: Cambridge [Eng.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Women in charitable work.; Poor -- Great Britain.; Women -- Education.
Notes: "The introductory lecture in the course, which has already appeared in a separate pamphlet, was delivered at the Working Men's College ... in May. The other lectures were given in the months of June and July, at the same place."--Advertisement.
Table of contents: title: Plan of a female college for the help of the rich and the poor, by F. D. Maurice.; title: The college and the hospital, by F. D. Maurice.; title: The country parish, by C. Kingsley.; title: On over-work, distress, and anxiety, as causes of mental and bodily disease amongst the poor, by George Johnson.; title: On dispensaries and allied institutions, by E. H. Sieveking.; title: District visiting, by J. L. Davies.; title: The influence of occupation on health, by Dr. Chambers.; title: On law as it affects the poor, by Fitzjames Stephen.; title: On the every-day work of ladies, by Archdeacon Allen.; title: On teaching by words, by R. C. Trench.; title: On sanitary law, by Tom Taylor.; title: Workhouse visiting, by J. S. Brewer.; title: Postscript.