The shoe-black to the crossing sweeper: Victorian street Arabs and photography

Textual Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 29-55

  Smith, Lindsay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barnardo; Childhood; Colonialism; Lewis Carroll; Photography; Street Arab

Indexed keywords

EID: 61149271525     PISSN: 0950236X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09502369608582238     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Thomas Guthrie, 'First Plea for Ragged Schools', 1847, Seed Time & Harvest of Ragged Schools or a third Plea with New Editions of the First and Second Pleas (Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1860), p. 25
2. Guthrie, 'Second Plea for Ragged Schools', 1849, pp. 55-6
3. Charles Stuart Calverley, 'The Arab' 1872, Flyleaves (Cambridge: Deighton Bell, 1883), pp. 19-21
4. Lindsay Smith,' "Take Back Your Mink": Lewis Carroll, Child Masquerade and the Age of Consent', Art History 16, no. 3 (September 1993), 369-85
5. Quoted in John Barrell, 'Death on the Nile: fantasy and the literature of tourism, 1840-1860', Essays in Criticism 41, No. 2 (1991) 97-127, pp. 107-8
6. Calverley, 'The Arab', p. 21
7. Thomas Barnardo, 'Philanthropic kidnapping', Night and Day, A Monthly Record, ed. T. Barnardo. For a discussion of the politics of this article, and a condemnation (in terms of civil rights) of Barnardo's privileging of 'moral' over 'judicial' law see The Journal of the Vigilance Association for the defence of Personal Rights No. 57 (February 1886), p. 1
8. For a detailed discussion of Stead's "The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon', The Pall Mall Gazette, July 1885
9. see Deborah Gorham, 'The "Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon" re-examined: Child prostitution and the idea of childhood in Late Victorian England', Victorian Studies, 21 (Spring 1978)
10. Barnardo, 'Philanthropic kidnapping', p. 1
11. See Gillian Wagner, Barnardo (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979), pp. 126-34, 136-54
12. George Reynolds, 'Dr Barnardo's Homes: Startling Revelations', 1876, p. 56
13. Quoted in V. Lloyd and G. Wagner, "The camera and Dr Barnardo' (Hertford, 1974), p. 14
14. See T. J. Barringer, 'Representations of labour in British visual culture, 1850-1875', 2 vols, unpublished D.Phil. thesis, University of Sussex (1994)
15. A. E. Williams, Barnardo of Stepney, The Father of Nobody's Children (1843)
16. Barnardo, Rescue the Perishing, an extended report of the work of the East End Juvenile Mission 1874-5 (1876), pp. lxxiv-lxxv
17. John Thomson (1837-1921), traveller, photographer and member of the Royal Geographical Society published in 1866 his photographs of his travels in Cambodia. His photographic series Street Life in London, published in 1876-7, is exactly contemporary with the Barnardo arbitration. See, Light From the Dark Room, ed. Sara Stevenson (Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 1995)
18. Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor: a Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of those that will Work, those that cannot Work, and those that will not Work (1850)
19. See especially, John Tagg, The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988) chapter 3
20. Barnardo published a number of such undated pamphlets with titles such as: Never had a Home, My First Arab, Done to Death and Kidnapped!
21. God's Little Girl, a Truthful Narrative of Facts Concerning a Poor 'Waif' admitted into Dr Barnardo's Village Home, narrated by Ellice Hopkins, a member of the Association for the Care of Friendless Girls, p. 4
22. A City Waif, How I Fished and Caught Her, p. 2
23. For an account of Arthur Mumby's practice of representing the labouring bodies of women miners see Griselda Pollock, ' "With my own eyes": the labouring body and the colour of its sex', Art History, vol. 17, no. 3 (Sept. 1994)
24. A City Waif, p. 21
25. Blake Morrison, 'Lost and found: the forgotten legacy of Dr Barnardo', The Independent on Sunday, 11 June, 1995, pp. 6-11