The History of the Queen Margaret College Settlement in Glasgow from 1898 to 1914
The History of the Queen Margaret College Settlement in Glasgow from 1898 to 1914

Author(s): Katarzyna Kłosińska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Queen Margaret College; settlement movement; female students; social work; Glasgow
Summary/Abstract: This communiqué relates the history of the Queen Margaret College Settlement in Glasgow from the end of the Victorian period. It places this initiative undertaken by early women graduates within the wider university settlement movement, showing how women adapted to the social work involved in a project designed to encourage the moral and material betterment of slum dwellers.

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