Workhouse Visiting Society

The Workhouse Visiting Society was an organisation set up in 1858^[1] which existed to "to improve moral and spiritual improvement of workhouse inmates" in England and Wales.^[2] The group was set up by Louisa Twining of the Twining's Tea family.^[3] It began as a sub-committee of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science. It was disbanded in 1865.^[4]

References

1. ^ www.thepotteries.org/dates/poor.htm
2. ^ Margaret Anne Crowther, The workhouse system, 1834-1929: the history of an English social institution
3. ^ http://www.swallowcliffehall.com/workh.html
4. ^ Gordon, Peter; Doughan, David (2001). "Workhouse Visiting Society". Dictionary of British Women's Organisations, 1825-1960. London & Portland, Or.: Woburn Press. pp. 188. ISBN 0-7130-0223-9.