Workhouse Visiting Society

The Workhouse Visiting Society was an organisation set up in 1858[1] which existed "to improve moral and spiritual improvement of workhouse inmates" in England and Wales.[2] The group was set up by Louisa Twining of the Twining's Tea family.[3] It began as a sub-committee of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science. It was disbanded in 1865.[4]

References

  1. http://www.thepotteries.org/dates/poor.htm
  2. Margaret Anne Crowther, The workhouse system, 1834-1929: the history of an English social institution
  3. http://www.swallowcliffehall.com/workh.html
  4. Gordon, Peter; Doughan, David (2001). "Workhouse Visiting Society". Dictionary of British Women's Organisations, 1825-1960. London & Portland, Or.: Woburn Press. p. 188. ISBN 0-7130-0223-9.


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