A. Twells 
The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1792-1850 
The ‘Heathen’ at Home and Overseas

This volume concerns the missionary philanthropic movement which burst onto the social scene in early nineteenth century in England, becoming a popular provincial movement which sought no less than national and global reformation.

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: The Middle Class and the Civilising Mission ‘One Blood’: The Heathen at Home and Overseas in Late Eighteenth- and Early- Nineteenth Century Missions Charity begun at Home: Missionary Philanthropy and the New Middle Class, Sheffield 1804-1823 Missionary Domesticity and ‘woman’s sphere’: The Reads of Wincobank Hall ‘Bringing about the World’s Restoration’: Missionary Women and the Creation of a Global Christian Community, 1816-1832 Trembling Philanthropists? Missionary Philanthropy under Pressure in the 1830s and 1840s ‘A Christian and Civilised Land’? The English Missionary and the South Pacific in the 1820s – 1840s Conclusions Endnotes Bibliography

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ALISON TWELLS is Principal Lecturer in Social and Cultural History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She has published articles on Nineteenth-century gender history and missionary culture, and is the author of
British Women’s History: A Documentary History from the Enlightenment to World War 1 (IB Tauris, 2007).