From the Book - Regular Print
Chapter 1 Victorian Childhoods and Two Victorian Children 21 --
Education of Nellie Dowell 23 --
Apprenticeship of Muriel Lester 57 --
Conclusions: The Challenges of Unlearning 75 --
Chapter 2 Capitalism, from Below and Down Under: The Global Traffic Matches and Match Girls 77 --
Work of the Match Girl in Victorian Culture 79 --
How Match Factory Women Became Match Girls 85 --
Match Girls'Militant: Why the Bells Match Factory Strike of 1893/94 Failed 95 --
Metropolitan Match Girls Abroad: Immoral Circulations of Matches and Match Girls 104 --
Chapter 3 "Being a Christian" in Edwardian Britain 135 --
Foundational Fables, Ethical Awakening 154 --
From Paupers to Citizens 177 --
Chapter 4 Body Biographies in War and Peace 184 --
Taking Nellie's Temperature 186 --
"You don't look near so well really" 201 --
Muriel Lester's Spiritual Therapeutics 212 --
Grammars of Difference, Erotics of Illness in Nellie's Letters to Muriel 226 --
"Why it is L don't know" 237 --
Conclusions: Dialects for the Heart 252 --
Chapter 5 Love and Christian Revolution 256 --
Henry Lester's Gift 261 --
Reconciliation and Christian Revolution 288 --
"Love your enemies, bless them that curse you" 301 --
Telling the Truth, Becoming an Heiress 315.
