| 单词 | workhouse |
| 例句 | Erasmus and his circle debated the Poor Laws, which were shunting the destitute into workhouses; they discussed the need for social reform. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the four women, two were sentenced to thirty days in the workhouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z September 22: Four women were arrested and sentenced to thirty days in the workhouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Railroad Tommy had given him a janitor’s job to save him from the poorhouse, workhouse, or nuthouse, one. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z September 13: Six women were arrested and sentenced to thirty days in the workhouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z October 15: Four women were arrested; two received suspended sentences, and two repeat offenders were sentenced to six months in the workhouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Elizabeth Darwin did not marry or have children; she was a loving and attentive aunt to her nieces and nephews and took care of elderly people at the workhouse in Cambridge. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And, most chilling of all to Penelope’s ears: “Those awful children! No doubt they will be sent to the workhouse after this. They are not fit to live among civilized society!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The boy thieves— what choice did they have with no homes or families—only workhouses that pretended Christian charity and dealt out despair? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Crossing a walled river of Stygian sludge, we entered a district of factories and workhouses, of smokestacks belching black stuff into the sky, and this is where we found Wakeling Street. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z "Bones," however, is an unusual television animal: A criminal procedural grounded in being a reliable, workhouse audience generator that's also very modern in style and tone. At 100 episodes, "Bones" not ready for burial yet 2010-04-07T06:30:00Z Men and women with the same afflictions were sent to different places — women to a workhouse and men to a hospital. Why Sexually Transmitted Infections Can’t Shake Their Stigma 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z The convent was “not an orphanage,” Reyes writes, but a workhouse where the girls toiled for 10 hours a day doing embroidery, tailoring and laundry. An Artist’s Childhood, Etched in Trauma and Abandonment 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z More quietly, there is the plight of Victorian paupers, starving to save pennies for something better than the workhouse pit or the dissecting table. Dust to dust 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Their welfare policies, he said, harked back to the Victorian workhouse ethos of telling people that poverty was their fault. La La Land fails to win Baftas landslide on night of diversity 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z We loved the part when meek little orphan Oliver, born out of wedlock in a workhouse, asks the proprietor in vain for a refill of his bowl of gruel. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 10: Oliver Twist 2012-01-27T18:23:43Z The book, published in 1838 when Dickens was 26, helped awaken affluent Britons to the horrors of the workhouse. Neighbors bid to save 'Oliver Twist' workhouse 2011-02-24T17:56:09Z “Collins’s vivid descriptions of the abuse of that magic within a grimy faux-Victorian-era world of workhouses and exploitation are almost too painfully true,” our reviewer, Naomi Novik, writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Though the orphan boys at the workhouse are beaten regularly and fed only gruel, the sign looming above them reads “God Is Love.” ‘Oliver!’ Review: Tunes, Glorious Tunes, in a Grimly Cheerful Revival 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Fall on hard times in the Victorian era and the dreaded workhouse beckoned. TV highlights 25/06/2013 2013-06-25T06:00:03Z It's a setting known to millions from "Oliver Twist," in which the workhouse hero Oliver, "desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery" tremblingly holds out his bowl and says "Please, sir, I want some more." Neighbors bid to save 'Oliver Twist' workhouse 2011-02-24T17:56:09Z The novel’s other goal is to critique the Poor Law of 1834, which decreed that impoverished families would be split up — men, women and children separated — and sent to workhouses. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 10: Oliver Twist 2012-01-27T18:23:43Z There is an indisputable association between the workhouse and a major figure in 19th-century workhouse reform, Dr Joseph Rogers, who as chief medical officer was witness to the appalling conditions at Cleveland Street. Letters: Workhouse heritage 2011-03-23T00:05:05Z The doll was made as a Christmas present for the workhouse master's daughter, at a time when those entering the workhouse lost access to their children, except for one supervised hour on Sunday afternoons. Workhouse exhibition reveals hardship and disease from a not-so-distant past 2013-03-12T16:22:45Z I think it is inconceivable that it was not that workhouse because Dickens lived so close to it. 'Oliver Twist' workhouse saved from demolition 2011-03-14T21:15:31Z The workhouse with its army of infant slaves looks like a concentration camp. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z He said that if the building were demolished, "London would have lost the last well-preserved workhouse infirmary from the 18th century." 'Oliver Twist' workhouse saved from demolition 2011-03-14T13:33:29Z Experts say the case is circumstantial - Dickens never revealed his inspiration for the workhouse in "Oliver Twist" - but compelling. Neighbors bid to save 'Oliver Twist' workhouse 2011-02-24T17:56:09Z The workhouse was a vast building and in 1847 housed many Irish immigrants desperate to escape the potato famine in Ireland. Workhouse exhibition reveals hardship and disease from a not-so-distant past 2013-03-12T16:22:45Z Ripon already has an unusual, and good, museum of prisons and the police, plus a courthouse museum and a third at the former workhouse. Yorkshire gets the world's first gritter museum 2012-06-13T17:08:05Z "I think it's inconceivable that it wasn't that workhouse, because he lived so close to it," Dickens scholar Paul Schlicke told BBC radio. Neighbors bid to save 'Oliver Twist' workhouse 2011-02-24T17:56:09Z Afterwards, he put his arms around me and Alberta and we watched the horse-drawn carriage slowly plod down our road towards the workhouse infirmary. The coalition's attacks on the NHS will return us to the age of the workhouse 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z It is a very different East End from the district of poverty and workhouses that would follow. More than just getting from A to B 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z The workhouse in our community was a forbidding building that had been constructed during the age of Dickens. The coalition's attacks on the NHS will return us to the age of the workhouse 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z A Victorian newspaper account of an inquest shows how strong the dread of the workhouse was among the poor. Workhouse exhibition reveals hardship and disease from a not-so-distant past 2013-03-12T16:22:45Z Born in London in 1889; survivor of a tough workhouse childhood; the embodiment of screen ; fugitive from J Edgar Hoover; the presiding genius of The Kid and The Gold Rush and The Great Dictator. Was Charlie Chaplin a Gypsy? 2011-02-17T22:00:02Z Florence Nightingale sought reform of the healthcare given in workhouses and sent in her own trained nurses. Workhouse exhibition reveals hardship and disease from a not-so-distant past 2013-03-12T16:22:45Z Tibby died before Florence Nightingale urged reform of the healthcare given in workhouses, and sent trained nurses in to set an example. Workhouse exhibition reveals hardship and disease from a not-so-distant past 2013-03-12T16:22:45Z Like a sickly baby born in an Edwardian workhouse, it was not something they seemed to have much hope for. Your next box set: Upstairs, Downstairs 2011-02-04T08:00:01Z Two centuries ago this neglected London edifice was a workhouse, where the city's destitute labored for rations of gruel. Neighbors bid to save 'Oliver Twist' workhouse 2011-02-24T17:56:09Z Maddox is trying to resolve another case, too, still searching for a young woman born in a workhouse. 'Solitary House' a mystery with a dose of Dickens 2012-04-30T18:38:09Z Most sinister of all is the Eumenides, a secret charitable order made up of the city’s wealthiest men that supports the workhouses, which takes its name from Greek myth. Review | For Stieg Larsson fans, a new voice — and an even darker side of Sweden 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Dickens' Oliver Twist, published in 1838, is the story of a young orphan who escapes the horrors of the workhouse for an equally troubled existence among the street urchins of London. Oliver Twist to turn crime fighter in Hollywood reinvention 2013-02-12T14:12:47Z His father had coached him for the scene by threatening to leave him at a workhouse if he did not do well. Child stars: The power and the price of cuteness 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z To tear them asunder was inherently wicked, and the proprietors of the state-sponsored workhouse are as evil in Dickens’ mind as the lowlife London criminals who take over Oliver’s upbringing from them. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 10: Oliver Twist 2012-01-27T18:23:43Z Inspired by Tressell's own life and fear of poverty and the looming workhouse, the novel offers a cogent study of capitalism in the workplace. This week's new theatre 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z At perhaps one house in fifty some anti-social type who'll probably end in the workhouse has painted his front door blue instead of green. Sound of the suburbs 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z The building itself has an appropriately cinematic pedigree as the Victorian Lambeth workhouse, where Charlie Chaplin spent time as a child. Cine-Files: The Cinema Museum, London 2013-02-12T09:00:00Z Three New York judges sentenced him, in what now sounds like a bad Dickensian joke, to four months in the workhouse. It’s worse than Jerry Seinfeld says: PC is undermining free speech, expression, liberties 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z Goggles worn for protection by workhouse inmates while breaking stone. Workhouse exhibition reveals hardship and disease from a not-so-distant past 2013-03-12T16:22:45Z A wooden doll made by a workhouse inmate. Workhouse exhibition reveals hardship and disease from a not-so-distant past 2013-03-12T16:22:45Z Including the use of Catholic "charity" workhouses and laundries as prisons where sexual women could be sent to do forced labor, for committing a sin rather than a crime. A Conservative Catholic Begs the Pope: Lead Us Not Into Temptation 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Only a few months later Carroll died too, aged 70, after 12 years in the workhouse. Workhouse exhibition reveals hardship and disease from a not-so-distant past 2013-03-12T16:22:45Z My parents decided that there was nothing more that could be done for Marion in their care, so they arranged for her to be placed in our local workhouse infirmary. The coalition's attacks on the NHS will return us to the age of the workhouse 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Oliver’s transit from the workhouse to an undertaker’s establishment to Fagin’s hide-out, spread across eight chapters in the Dickens, takes what seems like a blink of an eye here. ‘Oliver!’ Review: Tunes, Glorious Tunes, in a Grimly Cheerful Revival 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z For as long as it was profitable to structure America like a workhouse, we had work. Review | The American Worker: Exploited from the beginning 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z There are the 14 people lying on the pavement outside the locked workhouse because it is full. Diana Athill: the book that inspired Danny Boyle's Olympics vision 2012-10-12T21:54:01Z Not everyone is a fan of the old workhouse. Neighbors bid to save 'Oliver Twist' workhouse 2011-02-24T17:56:09Z But the hardship is never sentimentalised: in one of the most moving episodes, Woodruff's grandmother, determined not to accept charity, puts on her "best feathers" before taking flight to the workhouse. The Road to Nab End 2010-06-27T21:31:00Z Get a workhouse olive oil and a finishing oil. 75 simple and cheap ways to improve your cooking this year 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z Benjamin Franklin said he witnessed around England at this time “riots about elections; riots about workhouses; riots of colliers; riots of weavers; riots of coal-heavers; riots of sawyers; riots of sailors.” That Man From Stratford 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z The former workhouse in the Fitzrovia neighborhood - most recently part of a hospital that closed in 2005 - is one of hundreds of run-down Georgian and Victorian buildings that Londoners pass without a second glance. Neighbors bid to save 'Oliver Twist' workhouse 2011-02-24T17:56:09Z The young Dickens lived nine doors away and scholars say the sights and sounds of the building were probably the basis for the workhouse where orphan Oliver is incarcerated in his 1838 novel. 'Oliver Twist' workhouse saved from demolition 2011-03-14T13:33:29Z It's been a prison, a workhouse, a bomb shelter. Prison drama 2011-06-23T07:38:19Z Advisory group English Heritage said the building also was significant for its links to Victorian social reformer Joseph Rogers, the workhouse's medical officer. 'Oliver Twist' workhouse saved from demolition 2011-03-14T13:33:29Z The local workhouse was a particular target for his dislike. Letters: Mudfog's workhouse 2011-03-19T00:07:16Z It included a liaison with another man, domestic service, “tramping” as an itinerant laborer, further residences in the workhouse and frequent stays in London’s lodging houses. Review | Jack the Ripper’s identity has been endlessly scrutinized. His victims were largely forgotten. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z But this determination not to play the victim lifts Betsy's story, as she tells of her journey from the workhouse to the shoreline under Chain Pier. Betsy: Wisdom of a Brighton Whore – review 2013-05-13T17:31:17Z By high school, Scrooge’s line about prisons and workhouses was so embedded in my brain that I borrowed it for my AP European History exam. Scrooge on a Screen Just Can’t Be the Same 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z The barber was admitted, penniless, to a workhouse in 1889 and then to an asylum, where he died in 1899 of gangrene. Jack the Ripper Was a Polish Barber, Says Amateur Sleuth 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Now a residential area, it once was where New York put its undesirable industries, its prisons, its workhouses, its mental hospitals. Q&A: Discovering New York, Beyond Manhattan 2013-05-29T16:37:19Z He was sentenced to serve his time in a workhouse, a county-run correctional facility separate from the main jail that houses offenders who have a year or less to serve. Ex-officer sentenced after assaulting man during unrest in Minneapolis after murder of George Floyd 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z Under the plea deal, Cummings, a 14-year police veteran, could serve up to one year in the county workhouse and three to five years of probation. Ex-Minneapolis officer pleads guilty after fatal chase 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Three of them had workhouses known as Magdalene Laundries where women frequently had to do exhausting, unpaid labour. Mother-and-baby homes: 'One of the greatest scandals' 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z The children came from parish workhouses, some orphans, some just abandoned, and they lived in a dormitory next to the mill and served as “apprentices,” working 70-hour weeks in a Dickensian life of indentured servitude. Britain saves ‘grandparent’ of all modern skyscrapers, built in 1796 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The Anatomy Act 1832 sought to quell grave robbing and the outcry by establishing a new legal source of bodies; the unclaimed from workhouses, hospitals and prisons, as well as by making body donation legal. Desecrated Human Skulls Are Being Sold on Social Media in U.K.’s Unregulated Bone Trade 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Those who experienced life in workhouses and Magdalene laundries also tell their stories. Mother-and-baby home survivors' stories published 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Because in the sort of family I come from, they all died in poverty, in the workhouse, forgotten by history. Richard Osman is perfectly at ease pretending to be a 78-year-old woman 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z A lockup known as the workhouse was notorious for decades for its inhumane conditions, including rodent infestations, extreme heat in the summer and extreme cold in the winter. Six detainee deaths in St. Louis prompt investigation demand 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The workhouse eventually acquired a kind of national infamy after Rogers conferred with editors of The Lancet, the medical journal, and inventoried the place’s deficiencies. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z “This study equates government programs with charity. So did Ebenezer Scrooge, defender of the Poor Law and workhouses,” Mr. Fowler said. U.S. ranks 10th in study of ‘most thoughtful countries’ 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z The laundries were Catholic-run workhouses that operated across the island of Ireland. Mother-and-baby home survivors' stories published 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z That attitude can be seen in the harsh, inhumane workhouses and poorhouses that used to be common features of life in Great Britain and the United States. Manchin's means-testing requirement is a recipe for building back worse 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The legendary Mae West wrote a number of popular stage comedies, and for her efforts she was convicted of obscenity in 1927 — and sentenced to 10 days in a prison workhouse. ‘Cancel culture’ has always been a problem for comedy 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Beyond such details, there is Dr. Richardson’s hunch that Dickens met boys who lived at the workhouse, during an abysmal stint at a boot polish factory when he was 12. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z In the mid-1800s, the city of Georgetown kept its poorhouse and workhouse in the community, where Guy Mason Recreation Center is now located, near Calvert and 36th streets NW. Northwest D.C.’s Glover Park is ‘so close to everything, yet far enough away’ 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z The report detailed often harsh conditions and abuse suffered by some of those admitted to eight mother-and-baby homes, a number of former workhouses and four Magdalene laundries in Northern Ireland. Mother-and-baby home survivors' stories published 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z It's what made Ebenezer Scrooge inquire about the state of the prisons and workhouses. As the right ramps up the cruelty and dread, it's time to stay clear-headed — and fight back 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z One day after her inauguration, new St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones on Wednesday announced a budget plan that calls for closing a long-criticized jail known as the workhouse. New St. Louis mayor’s budget calls for closure of one jail 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z In 2011, the workhouse was listed, ending the threat to destroy it. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Some detainees may be moved to a second jail, known as the “workhouse.” Inmates stage uprising at St. Louis jail dogged by unrest 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Having been through a mill or two already — most are veterans of the workhouse — they are hard to rattle yet not so brave as to make their daring dramatically meaningless. Sherlock's a mess. Watson's a snob. The youngest players of 'The Irregulars'? Extraordinary 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z In this moment I will add my voice to the chorus: "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?" As the right ramps up the cruelty and dread, it's time to stay clear-headed — and fight back 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Jones’ office said closing the workhouse would save about $7.8 million. New St. Louis mayor’s budget calls for closure of one jail 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z “My knowledge of the general condition of the Sick Poor in workhouses is not of yesterday, nor are my efforts in my vocation to call merciful attention to it.” Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z The injured were diverted to workhouse infirmaries to be treated after Swansea General Hospital was bombed. Swansea blitz: Childhood memories of 'bombing horror', 80 years on 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z The other half were moved to a medium-security jail known as the workhouse. St. Louis jail tensions ‘boiled over’ amid COVID-19 worries 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z While activists have pushed to shut down a medium-security jail called “the workhouse,” alleging inhumane conditions there, the facility remains open, and dozens of people were moved there from the downtown jail after Saturday’s unrest. After St. Louis jail unrest, inmates’ advocates allege desperate conditions while officials defend pandemic response 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z A news release from Jones’ office did not say where the workhouse inmates would be housed since the other jail, the downtown City Justice Center, is near capacity. New St. Louis mayor’s budget calls for closure of one jail 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z When Dr. Richardson started the campaign to save the workhouse, she tried, in vain, to enlist some heavy-hitting institutions. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z It examined eight mother and baby homes, a number of former workhouses, four Magdalene Laundries and sought personal testimony from women and children with "lived experience" of the institutions. Mother and baby homes: Eamon Martin supports public inquiry 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z The workhouse has, for decades, been the subject of criticism. St. Louis jail tensions ‘boiled over’ amid COVID-19 worries 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z The workhouse “is a building, right?” he said. After St. Louis jail unrest, inmates’ advocates allege desperate conditions while officials defend pandemic response 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Mother-and-baby institutions housed women and girls who became pregnant outside marriage while laundries were Catholic-run workhouses that operated across the island of Ireland. NI mother-and-baby homes: 'Disclosure has to be a duty', says bishop 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z That was when Nick Black, a professor of health services and author of “Walking London’s Medical History,” noticed that a workhouse in an old lithograph had exactly the same footprint and architecture as the Annexe. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Mother-and-baby institutions housed women and girls who became pregnant outside marriage and the laundries were Catholic-run workhouses that operated across the island of Ireland. Mother and baby homes: Eamon Martin supports public inquiry 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Stanton, now a college student, recalled being jailed at the workhouse in 2016 when she was addicted to drugs. St. Louis jail tensions ‘boiled over’ amid COVID-19 worries 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z The workhouse has been a fraught subject in St. Louis, and the city’s board of aldermen approved a plan last summer to close it by the end of 2020. After St. Louis jail unrest, inmates’ advocates allege desperate conditions while officials defend pandemic response 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z In the early years, Ireland was an impoverished country, among the poorest in Europe, and life was hard for many, and the homes for unmarried mothers were run like workhouses. Irish leader apologizes for cruelty to unwed mothers and babies at homes run by the state and Catholic Church 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z A pawnshop stood on Cleveland Street exactly where it sits in the novel, to the south and across the street from the women’s ward of the workhouse. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z The latest problems arose Friday at the St. Louis City Justice Center, leading 45 inmates to be moved to the St. Louis Medium Security Institution, also known as the workhouse. Officials: 2nd disruption in a week occurs at St. Louis jail 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z Officials said 56 inmates were transferred to the St. Louis Medium Security Institution, also known as the workhouse, to separate them from other inmates at the justice center. Inmates transferred from St. Louis jail after disturbance 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Corrections officials also needed a way to alleviate crowding at the downtown jail, which had already taken on some people previously held at the workhouse, he said. After St. Louis jail unrest, inmates’ advocates allege desperate conditions while officials defend pandemic response 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Once a globe-trotting security adviser, Paul Whelan now spends his days sewing prison uniforms in the camp "workhouse", his fate deeply entangled in the dire relationship between Moscow and the West. Paul Whelan: 'Grim life' of US prisoner in Russian labour camp 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Among Dickens scholars, there was some initial skepticism about the workhouse link. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Some, like Reed, say that closing the workhouse now, during the pandemic, would put inmates’ lives at risk “just to meet a specific timeline.” Officials: 2nd disruption in a week occurs at St. Louis jail 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z The city plans to close the workhouse after several years of protests by social rights activists over conditions there. Inmates transferred from St. Louis jail after disturbance 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Reed said he was glad the workhouse was still open when Saturday’s unrest happened, so officials were able to “transfer that population over and bring some closure to what was happening.” After St. Louis jail unrest, inmates’ advocates allege desperate conditions while officials defend pandemic response 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Beasley pleaded guilty to a felony count of threats of violence and faces 120 days in a workhouse, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said in a statement. Wolves’ Beasley pleads guilty to threats of violence charge 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z That day, Dr. Paroissien signed a petition to save the workhouse. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Most of those protesters, who were targeting Jim Crow laws, were convicted of disorderly conduct, refused to pay a $50 fine and served a month in the county workhouse. Opinion | The fragile flowers of Tennessee’s GOP legislature contravene a basic right 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z It would eventually lead to them being asked to run a military hospital in London - Endell Street, a former workhouse, with more than 500 beds. The women who ran a WW1 military hospital 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z Reed also said that while the workhouse is a significant focus for many, the central issue in criminal justice reform is much larger. After St. Louis jail unrest, inmates’ advocates allege desperate conditions while officials defend pandemic response 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z ‘Quarantine’ by Eavan Boland “In the worst hour of the worst season / of the worst year of a whole people / a man set out from the workhouse with his wife.” Books to broaden your horizons, by Hilary Mantel, Simon Schama, Lisa Taddeo and more 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z Many of the deceased, his team concluded, were workhouse inmates. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Over the decades, Hart Island housed a Civil War prison, an asylum, a tuberculosis hospital, a workhouse, a jail and a missile base. From the files: Isle used for virus burials has long history 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z I wondered about their owners: one who may have stood in the audience at Shakespeare’s Globe; one a few hundred years later, who knew the horror of the workhouse. Letter of Recommendation: Mudlarking 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z An additional 65 of what he called “the most violent offenders” were taken to the workhouse, he said. After St. Louis jail unrest, inmates’ advocates allege desperate conditions while officials defend pandemic response 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Fifteen students were convicted and sent to the city workhouse after refusing to pay the $50 fines. Kicked and spat on, Nashville’s sit-in protesters persevered 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Once completed, the workhouse will be sold as one-, two- and three-bedroom units, with prices that start at around $1.3 million. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z He described visiting a cramped hospital in the city the previous day, parts of which dated from the nineteenth century, when it served as a workhouse. How Brexit Will End 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The harsh regime of workhouses is something we associate with Victorian times. 'I grew up in a Victorian workhouse' 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z In 2017, The Daily Haze published a video of incarcerated workers screaming for help inside of a St. Louis workhouse as temperatures broke 100 degrees. For incarcerated workers, summer heat can be a death sentence 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z She said her six years at the workhouse affected her "throughout her life". Irish laundry victim wins compensation battle 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z The workhouse, still stunningly intact, was then an unused part of a hospital owned by a foundation connected to the National Health Service, which wanted it razed to make way for luxury apartments. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z He must serve one year in the county workhouse, although the judge may switch that to electronic home monitoring no later than six months into the sentence. Ex-university staffer pleads guilty in computer theft case 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z The workhouses' harsh regimes, which involved subjecting the "idle and profligate" to hard, monotonous tasks such as rock-breaking, would become notorious. 'I grew up in a Victorian workhouse' 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z At the start of the 20th century, Roosevelt Island, then known as Blackwell’s Island, was home to asylums, quarantine hospitals, prisons and a workhouse. New York's amazing mega-monuments that were never built 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z As part of the plea deal, Doering will be sentenced to 365 days in the workhouse. Minnesota professor pleads guilty to domestic assault charge 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z In 2011, the workhouse was “listed,” giving it historic preservation status. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Poor and destitute families faced the workhouse, where conditions were far from loving. Search for descendants of first children in care 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z At first, the workhouse provided a kind of sanctuary for Susan and her siblings. 'I grew up in a Victorian workhouse' 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The plea calls for him to serve up to 90 days in the county workhouse and three years of probation. Man accused of pulling gun on Somali teens pleads guilty 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z At the workhouse, women were clubbed, had their heads slammed into iron beds, were refused medical treatment and fed lice and maggots. Perspective | Women who don’t vote? Explain yourselves to Grandma Flanagan. 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The answer depends on another question: How do you market a former workhouse, anyway? Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Organisers of the #closetheworkhouse campaign hope to draw attention to the “hellish” conditions inside St Louis, Missouri’s so-called “workhouse” jail, where former inmates describe battling with rats, black mold and waste-choked toilets. Monday US briefing: second Kavanaugh accuser comes forward 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z In the 20th Century, workhouses became known as public assistance institutions and were intended to provide temporary accommodation for homeless people, but the stigma associated with the regime endured. 'I grew up in a Victorian workhouse' 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z But the only time she ever felt hopeless was during the month she was incarcerated in the city’s infamous “workhouse” jail in 2016. 'I feel like a slave': St Louis' workhouse denounced as a modern-day debtors' prison 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z That’s why McDonald told her grandmother’s story to the folks at the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial, a group working to get a memorial built at the site of that workhouse. Perspective | Women who don’t vote? Explain yourselves to Grandma Flanagan. 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z All the guardians in the Annexe knew they could be evicted any day, potentially signaling the workhouse’s imminent demise. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Heatherwick and his team also redid the exterior of an adjacent workhouse—the elevator’s office and control center—which became the Silo Hotel, a 28-room boutique property with crystal chandeliers and velvet sofas. Grain Silos: From Empty Relics to Cultural Landmarks and Luxury Hotels 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z "We were stigmatised because we lived at the workhouse," she says. 'I grew up in a Victorian workhouse' 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z She describes the rest of her month in the workhouse as full of black mold, rats and blocked toilets churning up fetid waste. 'I feel like a slave': St Louis' workhouse denounced as a modern-day debtors' prison 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z They are some of the thousands of Irish adoptees whose unwed mothers were forced to live in workhouses. Pope in Ireland listens to the wounds of the abused 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z So when the National Health Service trust plumped for the demolition of the workhouse, in the 2000s, the building was not necessarily doomed. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z The board unanimously approved spending $200,000 to study converting a building at the workhouse in Plymouth into the county’s first secure mental health facility. Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Finally, the family were provided with a council house in Southwell and left the workhouse. 'I grew up in a Victorian workhouse' 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z “I say all the time that the workhouse is a hopeless place,” Bordeaux said. 'I feel like a slave': St Louis' workhouse denounced as a modern-day debtors' prison 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Etched bricks on the walls of the former male courtyard of the Watford workhouse commemorate some of the inmates who died there. Listed status bid for lost memorials 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z The articles spurred Parliament to pass a new workhouse law, and Rogers would go on to create the Association for the Improvement of London Workhouse Infirmaries. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z During the Industrial Revolution, England built workhouses where the destitute broke stones and untangled rope in return for food and a bed. The welfare state needs updating 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z In 1997 the former workhouse was bought by the National Trust, which restored it. 'I grew up in a Victorian workhouse' 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Today, Bordeaux is part of a growing movement of organizers, lawyers and those formerly incarcerated at the workhouse calling for the building, formally known as Medium Security Institution, to be shuttered. 'I feel like a slave': St Louis' workhouse denounced as a modern-day debtors' prison 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z People usually ended up in the workhouse if they were too poor, old or ill to support themselves. Listed status bid for lost memorials 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z A representative from the National Trust noted that it purchased a workhouse in Nottinghamshire in 1997, “after it was identified as one of the top 10 best preserved workhouse buildings in the country.” Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z In August 2017 she was held for 22 days in the county’s infamous “workhouse” jail facility which she described as riddled with mold, vermin, clogged toilets and stench. 'Predatory police': the high price of driving while black in Missouri 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z She says visitors are shocked when they happen upon the relatively modern furnishings amid the Victorian costumes and settings of the rest of the workhouse. 'I grew up in a Victorian workhouse' 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Earlier this month, the campaign #closetheworkhouse released a report demanding its closure, and calling the workhouse a site of “unspeakably hellish conditions” and an extension of a racist criminal justice system. 'I feel like a slave': St Louis' workhouse denounced as a modern-day debtors' prison 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z The mentally ill and people with learning difficulties were often also accommodated in workhouses. Listed status bid for lost memorials 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z That led her to discover Joseph Rogers and the broader topic of workhouses. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z The commission that repealed the system replaced it with Dickensian workhouses—a corrective, at the opposite extreme, for a program that everyone agreed had failed. Who Really Stands to Win from Universal Basic Income? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Children forced into the workhouse system were either housed in separate buildings from their parents or sent miles away, to live in government-run district schools. Breaking up families? America looks like a Dickens novel 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Organizers’ problem with the workhouse goes far beyond the the “hellish conditions” and deeper into the way the city uses incarceration – frequently as an answer to minor technical and fine-related violations. 'I feel like a slave': St Louis' workhouse denounced as a modern-day debtors' prison 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z As many as 1 million souls lie buried on Hart Island, purchased by the city in 1868 as land for a workhouse for wayward boys and a potter’s field. Erosion unearthing bones on New York’s island of the dead 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z “London workhouse + pauper graveyard,” it says on the top. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Pointedly, it will start at the city’s art college, housed in a former Magdalene laundry – the workhouse where “promiscuous” or “fallen” women were sent. The hateful Eighth: artists at the frontline of Ireland's abortion rights battle 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Under the “workhouse test,” relief would only be given to those willing to relinquish their independence, their human dignity, their spouses and their children. Breaking up families? America looks like a Dickens novel 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Back at the workhouse, even Glass and Edwards agree that too many people are incarcerated and that the bail system needs to be reformed. 'I feel like a slave': St Louis' workhouse denounced as a modern-day debtors' prison 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z The Catholic-run workhouses housed 10,000 so-called "fallen women" who were punished for their pregnancies by being made to work in punitive conditions, without pay. What welcome will Ireland give the Pope? 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z It soon became clear that the structure on Cleveland Street, in a neighborhood called Fitzrovia, was that workhouse, especially when Dr. Richardson unearthed details about the place that were echoed in the novel. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Wrote a reporter for the Evening Star: “They are the garb of the guilty, and their wearers are members of the chain gang, committed for various terms to the District workhouse.” Perspective | Ever driven on Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park? Meet the man it’s named after. 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z It showed a crone-like workhouse matron dragging a baby from its horrified mother, as a devil sneers and an angel hides its face in horror. Breaking up families? America looks like a Dickens novel 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z But still, city officials try to spin the poverty angle back to their side in defense of the workhouse. 'I feel like a slave': St Louis' workhouse denounced as a modern-day debtors' prison 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z We don’t live in a Dickensian nightmare where people retort, “Are there no workhouses?” in response to requests for assistance. Opinion | Tiny Tim’s GoFundMe 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Ultimately, it took the star power of the man who created “A Christmas Carol,” “Great Expectations” and more than a dozen other classics to rescue the workhouse. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Jonathan Pryce is quite good in the role of a wastrel whose legal troubles forced a young Charlie to toil in a workhouse. Review | ‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’ looks at the birth of ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z Marches and acts of political disobedience followed, including riots and arson against the new-built workhouses, with many Victorians uniting around the sanctity of the family. Breaking up families? America looks like a Dickens novel 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Her story of how she wound up in the workhouse is typical. 'I feel like a slave': St Louis' workhouse denounced as a modern-day debtors' prison 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z The number was so large that many local authorities could not accommodate them in workhouses and had to continue offering cash handouts or food, as had been the case before the 1830s. Why we need the welfare state more than ever 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z A few weeks ago, she walked with a reporter to the workhouse. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z One MP said last year that the report suggested Sports Direct's working practices "are closer to that of a Victorian workhouse than that of a modern, reputable High Street retailer". MPs quiz Sports Direct's Ashley on pay 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The 33-year-old right-hander has bucked the odds to become perhaps the most durable pitcher in baseball, and he takes tremendous pride in being an innings-guzzling workhouse. Max Scherzer exits early with neck issue and Nats bullpen can’t hold six-run lead 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Today, she spends much of her free time committed to closing the workhouse. 'I feel like a slave': St Louis' workhouse denounced as a modern-day debtors' prison 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z The workhouse was built in 1837, at a cost of £7,500, and housed about 300 people. Victorian workhouse memorial unveiled in Bridgwater - BBC News 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z “We’re absolutely delighted to preserve the workhouse,” he said, sitting in the underground construction office across the street from the building. Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z About 150 people protested Friday evening outside the prison, demanding that the workhouse be closed. Police use disperse protests outside St. Louis jail 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Last July, MPs accused the retailer of not treating its workers like humans and claimed its working practices were similar to those of a Victorian workhouse. Sports Direct staff supplier Transline faces administration - BBC News 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z “The workhouse in many ways symbolizes these destructive forces.” 'I feel like a slave': St Louis' workhouse denounced as a modern-day debtors' prison 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z After the repeal of the Poor Law in 1930, and the eventual abolition of workhouses, the site became a hospital and registry office. Victorian workhouse memorial unveiled in Bridgwater - BBC News 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z The chairman of the government's Business, Innovation and Skills committee Iain Wright suggested that Sports Direct's working practices were "closer to that of a Victorian workhouse than that of a modern, reputable high street retailer". Sports Direct 'hid data breach from staff' - BBC News 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The new workhouses were seen as the perfect solution—where families were split up, food was minimal and work painful. The Real Reason Charles Dickens Wrote 'A Christmas Carol' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Sports Direct, which has around 450 retail outlets, came under fire after BBC and Guardian investigations uncovered working practices at one of its warehouses which MPs later described as being akin to a Victorian workhouse. Sports Direct accounts investigated over family links - BBC News 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z “The only reason the narrative about conditions in the workhouse persists is because people refuse to visit and see for themselves,” Edwards said, offering the Guardian a walk-through of the jail. 'I feel like a slave': St Louis' workhouse denounced as a modern-day debtors' prison 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Mr Ashley, Sports Direct's billionaire founder, was called to answer questions from MPs, who compared working practices at the warehouse with "that of a Victorian workhouse than that of a modern High Street retailer". Sports Direct: Ashley steps in as chief executive resigns - BBC News 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Many hospitals are ramshackle buildings ranging from portakabins to Victorian workhouses spread across huge sites. Is a hospital a useful unit of spending? - BBC News 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Mr Ashley showed reporters around the warehouse, which was described by MPs as like a "Victorian workhouse", after an animated meeting with shareholders. Mike Ashley unloads wad of £50 notes - BBC News 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The Shirebrook warehouse was slammed in a report by British lawmakers which said its working practices were closer to that of a Victorian workhouse than a reputable retailer. Under-fire Sports Direct opens the door after criticism 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Once inside, Commissioner Dale Glass, Superintendent Jeffery Carson, and Tonya Harry, chief of security, led a half-hour tour of the workhouse. 'I feel like a slave': St Louis' workhouse denounced as a modern-day debtors' prison 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Working practices at Sports Direct are "closer to that of a Victorian workhouse than of a modern, reputable High Street retailer." No 'dignity or respect' for Sports Direct workers - BBC News 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Committee chair Iain Wright says the practices are "closer to that of a Victorian workhouse than that of a modern, reputable ... retailer." UK retail company condemned for 'Victorian' work conditions 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Committee chair Iain Wright says the practices are “closer to that of a Victorian workhouse than that of a modern, reputable … retailer.” UK retail company condemned for 'Victorian' work conditions 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Committee chairman Iain Wright said evidence heard last month by MPs suggested Sports Direct's working practices "are closer to that of a Victorian workhouse than that of a modern, reputable High Street retailer". Sports Direct staff 'not treated as humans', says MPs' report - BBC News 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z For those charged with overseeing this “giant workhouse,” the question became how to extract as much as possible from a congenitally flawed people. White Plight? 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z She said that being behind bars for almost a month in a St Louis jail nicknamed “the workhouse” was “a horrible experience I would not wish on my worst enemy”. Struggling single mother jailed over accidental fire finds outpouring of help 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Lord Alton of Liverpool, who proposed it, said it would end the "enforced workhouse destitution" currently experienced by asylum seekers. Government suffers two defeats in Lords on Immigration Bill - BBC News 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z There were government hospitals as well: The infirmaries that grew out of the much-despised workhouses of the 19th century. What “Downton Abbey” tells us about Obamacare 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Its harrowing illustrations by such artists as Samuel Luke Fildes drew attention to the suffering of the poor and the brutality of workhouses. Images of children starving in Madaya can still shock us into action | Jonathan Jones 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The society was highly influential, even receiving letters from workhouse children explaining that they saved crumbs from their own meals to feed to the birds outside. Why Do We Feed Wild Animals? 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Then, too, I can’t help my mind flitting back to the old Dickensian image of the workhouse. Even in expensive cities, the sharing economy may just have its limits 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z He spent five weeks at an inpatient treatment center and served time at a workhouse before easing back into his Minnesota duties. Kings' Drew Doughty appreciates Canadians' obsession with hockey's world junior championships 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Another of Dickens characters that was handpicked for this mash-up was Mrs Bumble from Oliver Twist, she who runs the workhouse where Oliver dared ask for more. Mashing up the world of Charles Dickens - BBC News 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Here he labored in the prison workhouse and, for fifteen hours a day, was confined with five other men to a small, stiflingly hot Southern jail cell. The Democratic Socialist Who Ran for President Almost a Century Ago 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z “The splendor and colors of Buckingham’s gardens and the majesty of the architecture reveal opulence and pomp, the same way that workhouses and smoke-spewing factories reveal degradation and poverty.” The concept art behind Assassin’s Creed Syndicate’s beautiful Victorian London 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z It reports that the Labour leader's great-great grandfather was a workhouse master who "presided over Dickensian conditions before resigning after seducing an inmate". Newspaper headlines: Jeremy Corbyn's first week and Downton Abbey returns - BBC News 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z Others, more recently bereaved, faced an open trench beside the eerie, overgrown ruins of a workhouse at the south end of the island. Mourners Make First Visit to New York’s Potter’s Field 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z The shame of dying in the workhouse haunted the Victorian poor. How did we get to this welfare state? - BBC News 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z The most prodigious of British autodidacts was Joseph Wright, a Victorian workhouse boy who became professor of comparative philology at Oxford. Classics for the people – why we should all learn from the ancient Greeks 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z It will surprise no-one familiar with the relentless whir of a treadmill to learn they were once used to a punish inmates in 19th century British workhouses. How dangerous are treadmills? - BBC News 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z “It was not only slave cabins, it was workhouses and storehouses. . . . It’s literally like a little village, and it was lined with structures.” Philanthropist’s latest gift: $10 million to Jefferson’s Monticello plantation 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Stanley, who also explored central Africa and famously found Livingstone there in 1871, grew up in a workhouse. Adventurers in a class of their own 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z In an 1850 investigation into the life of the poor, Charles Dickens described how the inmates of a Newgate workhouse skulked about like wolves and hyenas pouncing on food as it was served. How did we get to this welfare state? - BBC News 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Merrick’s mother died when he was young, and, rejected by his father and his stepmother, Joseph ended up in a workhouse, where he lived for four years before contacting a showman, looking for rescue. Bradley Cooper in “The Elephant Man” | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z On one drive, the freshman running back Dalvin Cook — tasked with workhouse responsibilities after Karlos Williams was ruled out with a concussion — rushed seven times for 68 yards. F.S.U. Grinds Out Another A.C.C. Title With a Win Over Georgia Tech 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z James was found guilty of reckless homicide and sentenced to 30 months in a workhouse and five years’ probation. Fired Ferguson rep Devin James' public relations nightmare 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z In small-town workhouses, disposable chopsticks are typically bleached with hydrogen peroxide, polished with paraffin and treated with sulphur dioxide to prevent mould. Sticks in the gullet 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z I was fine for the first fortnight, but then, on the final Wednesday, I developed the sort of whooping cough you'd expect to hear in a Victorian workhouse. My Edinburgh festival nightmare: comedians on their fringe hell 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z The home, previously a workhouse, was run by the nuns of Bon Secours, a Roman Catholic order of French origin; the rate of infant mortality was well above the national average. The search for the truth 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Along with a nearby workhouse - swiftly renamed the Kitchener Hospital - and the Dome and Corn Exchange, near the Pavilion and built to a similar style, the government took over. 'Fairyland' care for Indian troops 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Merrick, who suffered from a rare bone disorder, spent four years at a Leicester workhouse before he persuaded a showman to exhibit him. Headstone for Elephant Man's mother 2014-05-10T13:04:34Z In the years after the city bought Hart Island in 1868, the Department of Public Charities and Correction operated an asylum and a workhouse there. Op-Ed Contributors: The Graves of Forgotten New Yorkers 2014-03-18T23:57:15Z She reorganized Britain’s army hospitals and reformed the nursing in workhouses. On Medicine: Florence Nightingale’s Wisdom 2014-03-03T21:17:29Z With unemployment benefit non-existent in those times, those in need had to apply for "relief" at the nearby workhouse, a site now occupied by City Hospital. 'Living the dream' on Benefits Street 2014-02-10T00:17:26Z One of the essays, Night Walks, records how he found an answer to insomnia by roaming about London, along the river, past workhouses, prisons, asylums and empty churches, returning only at daybreak. Why Charles Dickens endures 2013-12-13T16:57:48Z The manager of the workhouse, however, got suspicious and contacted the police. The drugs derived from deadly poisons 2013-10-18T01:55:45Z Next month, the county commission will vote on a plan to convert part of the jail into a workhouse. Welcome to Prison, Cash or Credit? 2013-08-21T10:50:24Z Though murals of tropical lakes brighten the walls, it still feels much like a workhouse. Children’s homes: The nanny state 2013-08-15T15:00:17Z "You only had to look around the corner to see the other world - the prison, the asylum, the workhouse - to see why it was you were remaining employed and working hard," says Dr Upton. 'Living the dream' on Benefits Street 2014-02-10T00:17:26Z Not many workhouse boys could say the same. How the Ashes can ruin your life 2013-07-31T05:29:00Z His thinking inspired the introduction of a new Poor Law in 1834, which tried to make the workhouse their only option. Free exchange: Penury portrait 2013-07-25T14:59:44Z In Stroud I was able to claim a wealth of family connections - relatives born in the local workhouse, bandsmen, labourers. Aspiring Labour MP tells his story 2013-07-10T03:36:43Z The laundries were Catholic-run workhouses where thousands of women and girls had to do unpaid, manual labour. £30m package for laundries survivors 2013-06-26T15:43:29Z His primary concern was with disciplining the able-bodied poor and using the workhouses to make them economically productive. Disability history: The sword-thrower with no limbs 2013-05-26T06:04:33Z He had been born illegitimately in the Brighton workhouse in 1867. How the Ashes can ruin your life 2013-07-31T05:29:00Z After all, Churchill and Bevan fashioned their awakening speeches when the workhouse was the welfare solution for the destitute, when wars reeked and raved, when nuclear proliferation threatened the brittle horizon of peace. Has political oratory gone for good? 2013-05-10T03:32:28Z She returns to her family in shame and ends up in the workhouse. Horseracing in literature: a commentary 2013-04-05T10:08:16Z The workhouse during the Capitals' recent surge, Holtby made his 10th consecutive start and nearly recorded his fifth shutout of the season. Capitals win shootout, defeat Islanders 2-1 2013-04-05T02:10:13Z The youngest of 21 children, following the death of his father Thompson and his mother were sent to the workhouse, until he left to sell oysters on the street, vowing never to return. The Joy of Six: Lefties 2013-03-29T12:28:47Z But one does not simply replace a talented workhouse like Gaven. MLS week four: fan previews 2013-03-22T13:00:00Z In nearby Poland street, a workhouse was surrounded by cases but appeared unaffected: this was because, again, it had its own water supply. John Snow's data journalism: the cholera map that changed the world 2013-03-15T09:30:00Z City deregulation has bred selfishness not seen since Dickensian workhouse owners. Letters: Will bankers wear the bonus cap? 2013-03-11T20:59:01Z They were the inmates of Ireland’s notorious 20th century workhouses, the Magdalene Laundries. The Magdalene Laundries: Ireland's Shame Exposed 2013-02-08T07:05:26Z The report’s lead author, former Irish Sen. Martin McAleese, said until now the facts and figures of the workhouses run by four orders of Catholic nuns had been shrouded in “secrecy, silence and shame.” Report: Irish government oversaw unpaid workhouses 2013-02-05T19:21:00Z The city acquired the island in 1828, but the name remained Blackwell’s Island while the city operated a prison, a lunatic asylum, a charity hospital, a smallpox hospital, a workhouse and other Dickensian horrors there. F.Y.I.: Before It Was Called Roosevelt Island 2012-12-16T02:10:57Z It is estimated that over the next 100 years, 57,000 corpses were supplied - the great majority from workhouses, asylums and hospitals. Museum showcases 'bodysnatchers' 2012-10-18T07:26:33Z Employing young people from the Victorian workhouses was thought to be one way of resolving the servant crisis. A life below stairs 2012-09-21T23:57:36Z Over 10,000 young women, considered a burden by family, school and the state, spent an average of six months to a year locked up in these workhouses doing unpaid, manual work. The Magdalene Laundries: Ireland's Shame Exposed 2013-02-08T07:05:26Z And the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, which ran two laundries south of Dublin and in the western city of Galway, said some workers built lifelong friendships with nuns running the workhouse. Report: Irish government oversaw unpaid workhouses 2013-02-05T19:21:00Z Anything that looks like a return to the Dickensian workhouse raises hackles. Britannia Unchained: the rise of the new Tory right 2012-08-22T17:01:51Z So I suppose the transformation of Rikers Island into a Goldman workhouse could have been worse. Goldman Sachs's New York prison deal saves all the risk for the taxpayer 2012-08-02T18:02:05Z The rest of us should look at how one of the biggest economies in ended up in the sovereign-debt workhouse – and consider how closely 's catastrophe resembles our own. The euro crisis is happening in Britain too 2012-06-11T19:00:08Z She had a point – but there is also a very British tradition of grim exploitation, embodied by such inventions as the workhouse and the sweatshop. Back to the workhouse 2012-06-08T20:00:05Z The report found that 10,012 women were committed to the workhouses from 1922, the first year of Ireland’s independence from Britain, to the closure of the last two laundries in 1996. Report: Irish government oversaw unpaid workhouses 2013-02-05T19:21:00Z The hard times of the Victorian era were not exactly as hard as he portrayed, the free meals in the workhouses not so meager, and the factory workers not quite so hopeless. Letter from India: Today's India Recalls Reign of Victoria 2012-06-06T11:50:07Z In one English workhouse Potts reports sixteen feeble-minded women who have produced one hundred sixteen mentally defective children, and Branthwaite ninety-two female habitual drunkards who have had eight hundred fifty babies. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z There were 10,134 healthy children under fifteen in the workhouses, and the other inmates were either sick in hospital or permanently unable to work. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z Other cousins were old Mrs. Price and her two daughters, who would all three have been in the workhouse but for Mrs. Thompson. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Furniture, trinkets, money, Gone, gone, alas! are they all; What is there left but the workhouse After the call? Punch, or the London Charivari, November 25, 1893 2012-04-23T02:00:30.783Z Upon this subject he has lectured in the workhouses, beershops and asylums, and been received with enthusiasm everywhere, though he cannot deny the aloofness as yet of the aristocracy. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z He's only got ten pounds between him and the workhouse. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z "Sorry not to be in the workhouse?" indicating it with a slight movement of his finger. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z He had thought of her in the workhouse, or an almshouse, finishing her days on the bread of charity. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z His loss is the loss of the community, which is compelled later to relieve him and his family, and perhaps in the end find a home for him in the workhouse. Boy Labour and Apprenticeship 2012-03-30T02:00:18.807Z Besides the prisons, which include one built on the cellular principle at Breda, the state supports three penal workhouses for drunkards and beggars. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z From this position, being scornful and quarrelsome, unable to adapt himself to changed circumstances, and altogether “above his station,” he drifted finally into the workhouse. The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z Barbara pointed out a small oblong patch of grass and evergreens as the vicarage garden, while a bare building, of the rawest red brick, was the Mitchelhurst workhouse. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z Father was very angry when he came, and said he'd take it to the workhouse the next morning, and flyted me sadly about it. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z In the workhouse, where you'll drive me to in the end. Miser Farebrother, Volume I (of 3) A Novel 2012-03-13T02:00:28.227Z “The House” is the name colloquially given to such different institutions as the London Stock Exchange, the House of Commons or Lords and to a workhouse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Ralph went at once to the workhouse of the thriving little town. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z Only the most hardened paupers, who objected on principle to industry of any kind, complained of the modicum of labour exacted from the occupants of the new workhouses. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z But when morning came I could not bear to part with it; it had slept in my arms all night; and I've heard what workhouse bringing is. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z To let his father go to the workhouse would increase the scandal a hundred times. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z Hence, the deadly monotony of fa�ade, broken only by the three or, in the case of the really handsome box, five arches, and suggesting nothing so much as a "works" or a workhouse. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z He was brought before Justice Davis, who sentenced him promptly to sixty days in the county workhouse.” Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z Thus, the workhouse test is far less often than formerly made the condition of poor relief. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z My father was, when I last saw him, six months ago, going into the workhouse. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z He has found plenty of evidence that Chaplin's family were in London then, in and out of the workhouse. Nazi fakes 'hit pound confidence' 2012-02-17T04:15:42Z People don't seem to mind so much paying for prisons and workhouses. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z He called up the warden of the workhouse. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z But that a very serious addition was in this way made to the pauperism within English workhouses does not appear to be true. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z And how Sam had contrived to exist until now, and keep himself and his large family out of the workhouse, was a marvel to all. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z She never heard from him after he left the workhouse, but always had faith that he was somewhere living up to, or towards, the good resolves so often expressed to her. Miss Ellis's Mission 2012-02-11T03:04:04.613Z He rose in the night and strangled them all, one after another, with a blue handkerchief, not from want of fatherly affection, but to keep them out of the workhouse. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z A few minutes later the warden entered the women's wing of the workhouse. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z A city agen, But peopled by pale mechanical men, With workhouses filled, and prisons, and marts, And faces that spake exanimate hearts. The Irish Penny Journal, No. 1, Vol. 1, July 4, 1840 2012-02-11T03:04:02.107Z By diligence he has made himself into a finished artizan; by dint of industry in working over hours, he is amassing a competence that will keep him out of the workhouse in his old age. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z These countries are filled with prisons, with workhouses, with jails and with toiling, ignorant and suffering millions. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z And yet, one out of every six in that city dies in a hospital, a workhouse or a prison. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z He had been forced to this action, because the evening papers had published interviews with other strikers who had been in the workhouse. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z There, not very much more particularly than in other workhouses, can the majority of paupers be supposed to perish from special neglect. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Feb 3, 1872 2012-02-10T03:00:16.947Z Was he a going to see 'em took off to the workhouse? A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z His winters, it seems, were spent in the workhouses. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z He had proudly resolved that Pepper—poor little tender Pepper—should never see the inside of a workhouse. The Little Princess of Tower Hill 2012-02-06T03:00:11.547Z I come out of the workhouse to-day, and they tell me this lady wants to give me money to study, she wants to have me go to college like I was a rich girl. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z To banish her from our own chambers, however, was not to drive her to the workhouse, and I called for her services less and less often. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z The workhouse was about nine miles from our village. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z Out′doors, out of the house: abroad.—Outdoor relief, help given to a pauper who does not live in the workhouse. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z By one or other of these plans he might save Pepper from either dying or going to the workhouse. The Little Princess of Tower Hill 2012-02-06T03:00:11.547Z Dozens of other girls had been sent to the workhouse on perjured evidence. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z The streets knew her no more, though for an interval the workhouse did. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z She was almost entirely confined to her bed, but quite able to enjoy and profit by the kind visits and Christian conversation of some persons who visited the workhouse. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z Minutes of Council 21st June, 1758: Mr. Josiah Marshall proposed to build a workhouse, 50 feet long, 20 feet wide and 8 feet high, in the town. History of Halifax City 2012-01-26T03:00:13.263Z He was sent in 1895, a little belatedly, to fourteen years’ penal servitude, and the victims of his “Liberator” frauds went into the workhouse for the most part, or died. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z Almost every day some of the pickets were arrested and sent to the workhouse. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z I remembered their willingness to let Trimmer die as a pauper in the workhouse. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z He made the case known to the authorities, and the little sufferer was taken to the workhouse hospital. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z Nor does there appear to us any objection to union workhouses having a portion of their garden ground used as a cemetery, to be restored to cultivation, after a sufficient time had elapsed.” Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z They were ordered to present themselves next day at the "military workhouse," and a committee was appointed to inquire into the condition of each, the city being divided into sixteen districts for that purpose. Heroes of Science: Physicists 2012-01-17T03:00:17Z But it has been sufficient to convince me past any doubt that the charge on which she was sent to the workhouse was an infamous libel. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z If it were not for our aldermen and county councillors, who have sufficient patriotism to get their portraits done in their own country, our English portraitists would end their careers in the workhouse. Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z Ah! and how many are now in our workhouses or prisons who would have to confess they were brought there because they did not think what trouble their thoughtless actions would bring upon them! The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z His grey workhouse coat braver than purple and miniver? Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z For example, the lighting of the military workhouse afforded matter for a long series of experiments, described in his papers on photometry, coloured shadows, etc. Heroes of Science: Physicists 2012-01-17T03:00:17Z You would suppose by my appearance that I had come out of the workhouse? Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z "I shall die in the workhouse," said he, as he buttered his toast with an irritability of manner quite alarming. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z If I were in the workhouse, with not a shirt to stand up in, there would be no need for any one to tell me anything. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z And here is a pauper, missioned from the workhouse to break stones at the roadside. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z In the military workhouse the former mendicants made all the uniforms for the troops, besides a great deal of clothes for sale in Bavaria and other countries. Heroes of Science: Physicists 2012-01-17T03:00:17Z Here, in these "workhouses" was the linen trade to be cultivated. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z As this Book says, you must be without natural affection, and it "would be better for you all to go into the workhouse, or to beg your bread, than to live in this way." The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z In 1832 he obtained permission to preach again, and in 1839 he became priest of the workhouse church of Vartov hospital, Copenhagen, a post he continued to hold until his death. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z His long journey of life has been through stormy places, and now he sits upon a pile of stones on the wayside, breaking them for workhouse bread. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z The latter course was rapidly bringing our whole family to the workhouse. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Suppose now a workhouse for the employment of poor children sets them to spinning of worsted. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z The parish doctor had ordered the removal of a woman to the infirmary, and two old workhouse men came with a covered stretcher for that purpose. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z The queen was brought up under a method of household education; and so was, no doubt, the last pauper who went to his grave in a workhouse coffin. Household Education 2011-12-02T03:00:25.437Z A workhouse gem, indeed—a wretched highway jewel—yet, to the eye of truth, finer than many a ducal diamond.... Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z The Bible-reading in a family has kept many a one from the gaol, the workhouse, and the Gazette, if it has not kept him from hell. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z I'm a beggar, and I shall have to go to the workhouse and sleep in the casual ward, and break stones before they let me leave in the morning. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z Poor old —— said, 'I have read your Testament all through, and don't know what I should have done when I was in the workhouse but for my book. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z It is true the workhouses exist, menacing society with an inundation of beggars—what way is there of escaping from the cause?... Socialism 2011-11-27T03:00:13.337Z The sight of his family beggared, homeless, and in the workhouse, either would have driven him reckless or broken his heart. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z From the king on his throne to the pauper in the workhouse, we are all sick of a mortal disease of soul. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z On these terms Wharton was declared master of the workhouse. Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland 2011-11-01T02:00:23.027Z I asked the Chaplain in the workhouse, and he explained the whole thing to me as clear as day.' The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z From the King in his palace to the pauper in his workhouse we have all been talking of the moon, and watching the moon and studying the phases of the moon. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z The thought of such riches made Thomas declare that he might yet escape the workhouse, as, thank God, his father had done. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z I do not ask rich men to leave their situations in life, give away all their property, and go into the workhouse. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z These people, however, when required to pay poor-rates, having no native poor of their own in the workhouse, resisted the payment of what they considered a very unjust tax. The South Isles of Aran 2011-10-26T02:00:28.363Z After the money was spent I pawned my clothes, and I was told to go to the workhouse. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z Services are arranged in connexion with workhouses, hospitals and other public institutions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z For the hind was there not still the workhouse? The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z In town and in country, among rich and among poor, from the palace to the workhouse, Christmas cheer and Christmas parties are proverbial things. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z There is no hospital, though there ought to be one, on the islands, as the sick poor are deterred from coming thirty miles by boat to the workhouse. The South Isles of Aran 2011-10-26T02:00:28.363Z The foreman would soon say that a younger man was ready to take the reins; and then the workhouse, its disgrace, and separation from as good a wife as ever lived. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z And it may come to our knowledge, that there is a vast body of persons to whom it is a matter of indifference whether they are inmates of a prison or a workhouse. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z Indeed, all the summer that followed it he was beaten down by his old complaint rheumatism, but there was no dread of the workhouse and the pauper's grave upon him now. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z To their own declaration that but for Sunday trade they must go to the workhouse, we lend a deaf ear. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 62, January 1, 1872 2011-10-18T02:00:20.750Z These slaves were housed and huddled together in places called Ergastula, which were literally workhouses, but practically, prisons. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z Many a wife and family of children have thus been reduced to a workhouse, and the greater number of them afterwards thrown upon the town! Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z Refer to any list, now seven years old, of the inmates of a workhouse, who were then aged from twelve to eighteen years, and then inquire what has become of them. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z "Must we go to the workhouse at last?" The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z The children in the hospital had the biggest tree that the ward would hold, and all the old men and women in the workhouse had a big tea, and shawls and mufflers. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z A man evading the changing room fees by slipping into his bathing suit in a bathroom got a $5 fine or a day in the workhouse. | Orchard Beach, the Bronx: Streetscapes | A High-Minded Pavilion at Orchard Beach in the Bronx 2011-09-22T21:41:59Z Many times has he become the father of innocent victims, who were doomed to perish in a workhouse, or be consigned to a premature grave! Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z A certain part of every workhouse is separated from the rest of the building, and appropriated to wayfarers. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z I asked what was to become of the others, and the answer was that there was nothing for them but the workhouse. In Answer to Prayer The Touch of the Unseen 2011-09-23T02:00:24.177Z And his favourite son could jog along as romantically as the workhouse rules allowed, without labour and without effort. The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy 2011-09-18T02:00:22.467Z Offenders were tried within hours at a special court; a man selling ice cream from a rowboat was sentenced to 30 days in the workhouse. | Orchard Beach, the Bronx: Streetscapes | A High-Minded Pavilion at Orchard Beach in the Bronx 2011-09-22T21:41:59Z It is also practically the right which prevailed in England between 1782, when Gilbert's Act abolished the old workhouse test, and 1835, when the new Poor Law restored it. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z These parishes, however, should not escape the inquiry; and a useful direction might be given to it, if the subject of classifications in workhouses were to be considered in connexion with these populous places. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z To which a little girl answered, "They went to the workhouse, sir." Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How 2011-09-09T02:01:03.123Z The famous meal in the workhouse when Oliver asked for more was intended to direct attention to the way children were fed and treated in institutions. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z The furniture and clothes his mother possessed were seized for rent, and he was carried off to become an inmate of the workhouse. Jack Buntline 2011-08-31T02:01:34.270Z The first building on my right, after descending the bill, was once a workhouse—it is now an hospital for sick soldiers; and those poor fellows who were able were taking exercise outside its walls. The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier 2011-08-31T02:01:26.737Z We think that an improved classification in workhouses, in which moral consideration might be allowed to form an element, might be attempted. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z My son, I believe, is now the inmate of a workhouse. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z Having shown how infants were starved in “farming,” and how boys were starved in the workhouses, he next directed attention to the way apprentices were treated. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z That workhouse had a master, a stern, hard man. Jack Buntline 2011-08-31T02:01:34.270Z These were to be sent to the workhouse for distribution on Christmas Day, and it was hoped to prepare enough for each inmate to receive one. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z The question, how far moral considerations can be allowed in the classification of workhouses, is one of difficulty, and all opinions and suggestions require to be cautiously and guardedly stated. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z Yes, that's it," said the middle-aged man slowly, "but there's workhouses in the States, too. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z The workhouse authorities replied with humility that there was not. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z Hard had been Jack’s life in the workhouse—much harder was it now. Jack Buntline 2011-08-31T02:01:34.270Z Being returned to the workhouse, he there recovered his senses in a few months, when his epileptic attacks returned, and continued with their usual frequency. Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection 2011-08-23T02:00:29.227Z At another time, we may be deeply concerned in the subject of prison discipline; and while studying reports, returns, and dietaries, the subject of workhouse discipline may become associated with it, and induce comparisons. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z A few years later the uncle heard or read that his nephew was sentenced to three months in the workhouse for drunkenness, and he changed his will, leaving all his estate to benevolent institutions. Subconscious Religion 2011-08-22T02:00:58.937Z Oliver was told he must be thankful to the kind gentlemen who provided food for him in the workhouse. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z Occasionally in the workhouse he did hear prayers said and a discourse uttered, somewhat hard to understand, perhaps. Jack Buntline 2011-08-31T02:01:34.270Z The fare of the workhouse is ungenial to this wretched state of existence, and therefore they seldom long continue a burden to the parish. Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection 2011-08-23T02:00:29.227Z And that it must be so, is obvious from a mere inspection of the means which the workhouse master and the jailer have at their disposal. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z The survivors were gathered together by the sheriff of Lancaster, and placed in the workhouse for safety. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z Oliver ran away from Sowerberry’s, and when passing the workhouse he peeped between the bars of the gate into the garden. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z No one would have recognised in the active, well-built, intelligent, sunburnt seaman the poor little spirit-cowed workhouse lad, who a few years before had left the shores of England. Jack Buntline 2011-08-31T02:01:34.270Z My experience of workhouse children," the coroner remarked, "is that whatever the hair they may have had when they entered the house, it is stiff enough to stand upright when cut close to the head. The Lost Heir 2011-08-07T02:00:09.367Z Our object has been to show that the strict workhouse system leads necessarily to these evils. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z These children were now gone to the workhouse: more fortunate than the many they left behind. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z Dickens says: It must not be supposed that Oliver was denied the benefit of exercise, the pleasure of society, or the advantages of religious consolation in the workhouse. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z Do not put him into the workhouse, he cannot work. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z Well, it is my bounden duty to nip it in the bud, or Sylvia will end her days in the workhouse. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z For all these, and many more, an asylum must exist, and this asylum is the workhouse. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z One of the finest bits of humour in the present volume is the scene in 'Amos Barton,' which occurs at the workhouse, euphemistically called the "College." Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z The workhouse was old and unhealthy, yet he had opposed every effort to build a better one; the relieving-officers were drunkards, and generally unable to keep their accounts correctly. Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z In the same period, female elementary school teachers increased by over 50 per cent., and the women engaged in hospital and institution service and in workhouses and workhouse infirmaries by 41 per cent. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z It would seem to a Latin an impossibility that any child would leave his parents in a workhouse. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z And so the workhouse at night has become open house to all comers. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z But a heavy retribution befell the poor pseudo-author at last, for when his false pretences to favour were fully manifest he fell into utter neglect and poverty, ending his days in the workhouse. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z There is an old woman in the workhouse who maintains that the deceased Baronet has left a son who is heir to the title and estate. Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z Attempts, too, must be made to deal with the various forms of institutional life, varying from prisons and workhouses on the one hand to expensive boarding-schools and hotels on the other. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z Bad air in schools, barracks, workhouses, &c. , also causes a chronic hyperaemia in which it is common to find a follicular hyperplasia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z It may, however, be thought that, in suggesting a moral classification, we are getting rid of some of our objections to the "strict workhouse system." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z My dear man, I am in the workhouse! Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z For instance, last year Mr. Fort, of the Foresters’ Music Hall, invited some of the paupers from a neighbouring workhouse to spend the evening with him. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z Finally, when I had been reduced to picking scraps out of the gutter, I resolved to go to the workhouse. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Budge had been a baby herself once—a workhouse baby—and she looked it still, at fourteen. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z We may therefore say, that while we think a sound system of out-door relief is the preferable mode of dealing with poverty and pauperism, yet we believe the workhouse to be a necessary adjunct. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z Was any trust to be placed in that woman at the workhouse? A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z It is a fact that on Christmas week there is a sudden and wonderful exodus from the workhouses around London. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z A passion of tears relieved the sufferer, and she called her grandchildren; these innocent babes, said she, I shall not be able to keep them, they must go to the workhouse. Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories 2011-06-26T02:00:10.173Z Not a thin starveling, but a sturdy workhouse baby, who had thriven and grown strong on simple oatmeal fare. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z Under the most favourable circumstances, the Union-house or workhouse is a moral pest-house; but, in the large manufacturing town or populous metropolitan parish, it is a necessary evil. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z She went to the workhouse and sought out the woman, an old and infirm creature, and had a conference with her. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z You have a garret to sleep in, and nothing to look forward to but the hospital or the workhouse. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z Eighty-four of those convicted were sent to the workhouse for six months, 27 were put on probation, and other dispositions were made of 12. Commercialized Prostitution in New York City 2011-06-25T02:00:18.937Z “Yes, Miss Cynthia; she is from the workhouse, and she is a little clumsy, but she is very faithful, and so fond of baby.” Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z The public revenue is 20,000 rubles, produced by the rent of the fisheries and by special taxes; this money is spent in keeping up the public buildings, the schools, workhouses, &c. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z She remembered, further, that the granddaughter of the "Priest of the Well" was then an inmate of the workhouse at Denbigh. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z He was for at once sending for an officer and having Chase sent to jail or the workhouse. Airship Andy or The Luck of a Brave Boy 2011-06-13T02:00:31.130Z A new institution should be provided; not a lounging, unsanitary place, but a real workhouse, looking to reformation as well as punishment.” Commercialized Prostitution in New York City 2011-06-25T02:00:18.937Z How to get her out of the workhouse and find an asylum for her somewhere else was a problem he could not solve. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z Its public buildings, are a church, with an organ and a belfry, and three large workhouses for bachelors, widows, and girls. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Notwithstanding this proclamation, those cruel men again assembled themselves, and, hearing that the remaining fourteen Indians were in the workhouse at Lancaster, they suddenly appeared in that town on the 27th of December. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical 2011-06-08T02:00:20.907Z During the last fifteen years alone there has been an increase of more than 250,000 paupers in England and Wales, and one person out of every twenty-two is in receipt of workhouse relief. The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick 2011-05-31T02:00:34.353Z One is betrayed into uncivilised longings for the workhouse, or even the convict's cell, the simplicity of bare boards and tables! Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z "You are thinking about the workhouse, Ruth?" she said at length. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z Mrs. Fane is walking down the middle of the workhouse infirmary with a basket on her arm, when one of the old women puts out a wrinkled hand to call her back. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z They were all put into the workhouse, a strong building as the place of greatest safety. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical 2011-06-08T02:00:20.907Z From the first you had an object in saving me from starving or from the workhouse, and I suppose you thought that object was worth spending money on. Dorothy's Double Volume II (of 3) 2011-05-29T02:00:06.640Z But the Royal Literary Fund is a thing to accept aid from which humiliates the recipient past all bounds; it is worse than the workhouse. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z Her mother was in feeble health, her spirit was broken, and to send her alone into the workhouse would be to break her heart. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z In this infirmary of the workhouse it is a matter of course that people should die. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z Fifty of them, armed as before, dismounting, went directly to the workhouse, and by violence broke open the door, and entered with the utmost fury in their countenances. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical 2011-06-08T02:00:20.907Z The Magdalene laundries were a network of profit-making workhouses run by four religious communities — the Sisters of Mercy, the Sisters of Charity, the Good Shepherd Sisters and the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity. Irish Church's Forgotten Victims Take Case to U.N. 2011-05-25T14:47:49Z If long illness ultimately drove me to the workhouse, I should feel no disgrace, having done my utmost to fight with difficulties. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z When I heard that that poor woman had been took off to the workhouse, I said to myself, 'Jim Brewer, you're a coward.' The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z In 1839 Elizabeth Fry went to Paris, in order to visit the workhouses, prisons, and homes on the continent, and to stir up the people to enquire into their arrangements. Great Englishwomen An Historical Reading Book for Schools 2011-05-23T02:00:09.167Z There is an end to all things; and as for his old age, should he grow old, had he not the parish and the workhouse? Rachel Gray 2011-05-20T02:00:39.547Z "I would rather you took a wife out of the parish workhouse, Joe," the Squire said, in his anger. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z What distinguishes conditions in today's Chinese factories from Dickensian workhouses is scale. Inside Foxconn: The Man Who Makes Your iPhone 2010-09-09T21:00:00Z On the following day Ruth went with her mother in the workhouse van to the big house. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z If there is one subject that has a more confused melancholy legal history than another it is the story of the workhouse. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z "I say," repeated Rachel, "that my father shall never, whilst God gives his daughter life, go to a workhouse." Rachel Gray 2011-05-20T02:00:39.547Z But what am I to do?—there's nowhere to turn—only the workhouse. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z A basket was accordingly hung outside the hospital; the maximum age for admission was raised from two to twelve months, and a flood of children poured in from the country workhouses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z "In the workhouse?" she said, with a gasp. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z This was the beginning of the workhouse system which really made the workhouse a kind of prison for those who could not find work outside. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z In vain he begged and prayed to be sent to the workhouse or some hospital; Rachel would not hear of it. Rachel Gray 2011-05-20T02:00:39.547Z I’ll take you up with me to the workhouse hospital at six o’clock this evening. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z We want to see 676 whether we cannot make for the agricultural labourer some better hope than the workhouse in his old age. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z "Ruth," he said to his sister one evening, with a grave look in his eyes, "if you ever see me growing proud, remind me that my mother died in a workhouse." The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z Old Age Pensions, Labour Exchanges, Medical Insurance, Unemployment Insurance and the enlightened administration of some of the better Boards of Guardians have made great inroads on the negative inhumanity of the workhouse system. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z She looked her in the face steadily, and in a firm, clear voice, she deliberately said: "Mrs. Brown, my father shall never, whilst I live, go to a workhouse." Rachel Gray 2011-05-20T02:00:39.547Z He recovered from the effects of the long exposure rapidly, had his leg set, and was made as comfortable as the combined efforts of the whole workhouse hospital staff could make him. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z As the special object of Oliver Twist was to expose the conduct of workhouses, that of Nicholas Nickleby was to denounce the management of cheap boarding-schools. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Every Sunday as he passed through the little graveyard at Veryan he was reminded of the fact that his mother had died in the workhouse. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z In the larger workhouses male and female inmates dine together, work together in kitchens and laundries and in the open yards and corridors, with results that are obvious. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z "Will you send him to the workhouse, or not?" imperatively cried Mrs. Brown. Rachel Gray 2011-05-20T02:00:39.547Z The master of the workhouse, after a consultation with the matron and the nurse, came to the conclusion that he must be a foreigner. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z Certainly not the millions of British workers & their families who couldnt vote & who endured appalling living/working conditions in the mills & factories & workhouses of the 19-20th century. Blame game 2011-04-07T11:03:58Z When he saw his mother dying in a workhouse hospital, he could only groan in bitterness of spirit. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z The current cant of the day is that the alehouse leads to the workhouse. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z It was currently reported that Thomas Gray was a wealthy man, and that if Rachel Gray did not let him go to the workhouse, she knew why. Rachel Gray 2011-05-20T02:00:39.547Z He felt for the master of the workhouse. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z He therefore determined to get himself admitted an inmate of the workhouse—for even the walls of a workhouse cannot hold love out; "and what love can do, that dare love attempt." Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' 2011-04-08T02:00:09.863Z "We must get mother out of the workhouse, and at once, whatever happens," he said. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z The ideal that the Commissioners stood out for was that no relief whatever was to be given to able-bodied persons or to their families otherwise than in well-regulated workhouses. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z The project envisaged a two-year stint in the economic workhouse as GDP fell and Greece regained lost competitiveness. Greece's economic woes: The labours of austerity 2011-04-07T10:58:14Z At six o’clock the whole party of linguists assembled in the private sitting-room of the master of the workhouse. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z It's very possible, gentlemen, that he may have rich relations in the place where most of us have rich relations—I refer to the workhouse! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 15th 1893 2011-03-26T02:00:12.713Z "You have heard of that poor woman being carried off to the workhouse, I expect." The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z This was reported of the workhouse in 1834, this is again reported of the workhouse in 1909; there seems every reason to believe that it will be once more reported of the workhouse in 2000. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z Lodging and diet in the workhouses, in every instance, are superior to what the industrious labourer can provide for his family. A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention 2011-03-23T02:00:17.353Z One or other of them you must choose, otherwise the unfortunate master of this workhouse will get into trouble for not registering you. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z Land of the workhouse and the jail! your victims are legion. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z "I really can't see, for the life of me, why you working people so much object to the workhouse," the vicar said, in a tone of irritation. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z This picture is foul and detestable enough, but it is perhaps in the treatment of children that the workhouse system causes the greatest unintentional cruelty. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z She gave me the little parcel containing the clothes I had on when she rescued me from being sent to a workhouse. Uncanny Tales 2011-03-22T02:00:16.307Z He arrived at the workhouse in the evening 295 with a number of cryptic notes, the words lavishly accented, written down on small slips of paper. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z At this time Uncle Julius had been made one of the Poor Law Guardians and had to visit at the workhouse, and there was the most ceaseless ferment and outcry against him. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z The workhouse was a place that most of them regarded with horror. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z For if the rich have by their laws made a mess of the alehouse, what about the other public-house—the workhouse? The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z Sooner—far sooner—would I have gone to the workhouse than be obliged to think of you in Gaunt's power! The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z Social Abolition of the present workhouse system, and reformed administration of the Poor Law on a basis of national co-operation. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z She grew up in the workhouse, went up to London as a servant, and became the mistress of the duc de Bourbon, afterwards prince de Cond�. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z |
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