Category: History - British
The word "vagrancy," from the Latin _vagare_, to wander, now implies a crime against civilised society (Vagrancy Report, p. 3, footnote). Laws to restrain or abolish it form part of the code of European and other civilised States.
The word "vagrancy," from the Latin _vagare_, to wander, now implies a crime against civilised society (Vagrancy Report, p. 3, footnote). Laws to restrain or abolish it form par...
2. CHAPTER II.Having gradually been brought to the conviction, by investigation of numerous cases of destitution among women, that there were circumstances in our social arrangements which fo...
3. CHAPTER III.Having, with a friend, spent five days and nights of the summer of 1903 as a "Tramp among Tramps,"[86] I was led to pursue social investigation a little further. The reasons wer...
4. CHAPTER IV.Having occasion to spend a week in a southern city, I determined to do what I could to ascertain the condition of its common lodging-houses, in order to find out whether the sam...
5. CHAPTER V.On a bright evening in May, when the trees were fresh with Nature's tracery, and the sky glowed with colour, my friend and I found our way by train and tram to a house, which wa...
6. CHAPTER VI.There are certain elementary considerations of decency with regard to accommodation for women that we might expect would receive attention in every town of considerable size, es...
7. CHAPTER VII.I have been deterred from specimening women's lodgings in London by this difficulty--that one could not be sure of emerging in a fit condition to be received into the house of r...
8. CHAPTER VIII.My friend and I have the rights of friendship in a lodging-house which we frequently visit. The inmates of lodging-houses are often very dull on Sundays. They cannot walk the st...
9. CHAPTER IX.If you stand, in the clear fresh dawn of an early summer morning, on a hill-top in the northern country where I live, and look towards the dawn, you see outspread before you a w...