Download or read book Slum Travelers written by Ellen Ross and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-07-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen Ross has collected impressions from some of the half a million women involved in philanthropy by the 1890s, most of them active in the London slums. The contributors include Sylvia Pankhurst and Beatrice Webb, as well as many more less well known figures.