In 1910 Haggard investigated the social work of the Salvation Army in Great Britain and set down what he saw: the London shelters and free breakfasts, the workshops and labour bureau, the work among ex-prisoners, the emigration department, and the homes for women and girls. He records conversations with officers and those they helped.
A sympathetic, closely observed account of Edwardian poverty and one response to it, by the author of King Solomon’s Mines. Download the free EPUB.