Charitable Words: Women, Philanthropy, and the Language of Charity in Nineteenth-Century Dublin Preston, Margaret H.

In the 19th-century, Dublin lacked sufficient industrial development to provide adequate employment. Charitable workers attempted to improve the lives of the thousands who flocked to the city in search of relief. Notions of race, class, and religion influenced how Ireland's philanthropists thought of and related to the poor. As a means to examining the hidden incentives of charity, the author offers a discussion of the language of charity as practiced in this setting. Preston suggests that the Irish upper classes, in seeking to gain equal footing with the British elite, adopted the same language to describe the poor.

DOI: 10.1336/027597930X Mouse over the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to learn more about this book or related books published by Greenwood Publishing Group. Visit the Greenwood Publishing Group page for this title: http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C7930.aspx

Charitable Words: Women, Philanthropy, and the Language of Charity in Nineteenth-Century Dublin Series: Contributions in Women's Studies Hardback, 226 pages, $98.95 Copyright ©2004, Praeger Publishers ISBN: 0-275-97930-X DOI: 10.1336/027597930X

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