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Cover -- the Match Girl and the Heiress -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE Victorian Childhoods and Two Victorian Children -- The Education of Nellie Dowell -- The Apprenticeship of Muriel Lester -- Conclusions: The Challenges of Unlearning -- CHAPTER TWO Capitalism, from Below and Down Under: The Global Traffic in Matches and Match Girls -- The Work of the Match Girl in Victorian Culture -- How Match Factory Women Became Match Girls -- Match Girls' Militant: Why the Bell's Match Factory Strike of 1893/94 Failed -- Metropolitan Match Girls Abroad: Immoral Circulations of Matches and Match Girls -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER THREE "Being a Christian" in Edwardian Britain -- "God Is Love" -- Foundational Fables, Ethical Awakening -- God's Empire -- From Paupers to Citizens -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER FOUR Body Biographies in War and Peace -- Taking Nellie's Temperature -- Narrating Nellie -- "You don't look near so well really" -- Muriel Lester's Spiritual Therapeutics -- Bodies at War -- Grammars of Difference, Erotics of Illness in Nellie's Letters to Muriel -- "Why it is I don't know" -- Conclusions: Dialects for the Heart -- CHAPTER FIVE -- Love and Christian Revolution -- Henry Lester's Gift -- Feminisms at War -- Reconciliation and Christian Revolution -- "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you" -- Telling the Truth, Becoming an Heiress -- Conclusions -- Afterlives -- Manuscript Sources -- Notes -- Index.

AbstractThis article argues that fromcirca1845–1857, British colonial officials and administrators, abetted by Protestant missionaries and some so-called 'native Christians', attempted to replace Brahmanical regulation of everyday life with what I am calling 'governance by conscience' in British India. It uses the 1851 legal ruling inNarayen Ramchundur versus Luxmeebae, hailed by some for bringing 'liberty of conscience' and condemned by others as a wanton violation of Hindu personal law, to elucidate the connections between the Caste Disabilities Removal Act of 1850 (Act XXI) and education. My analysis highlights the centrality of Brahman wives and gender to debates about conscience, caste, property, and Christian conversion. During the violent summer of 1857, some condemned the Act and its use in deciding the case ofNarayen Ramchundur versus Luxmeebaeas provocation for the traumatic disorders then threatening to dismantle Britain's Indian empire.

In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, powerfully shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understanding