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| Thomson, Patricia. The Victorian Heroine: A Changing
Ideal 1837-1873 (London: Oxford University Press, 1956). Thomson examines Kingsley’s representation of the charitable work of the heroines of his novels. Kingsley is critical of Honoria in Yeast because of her indiscriminate almsgiving which helped to destroy the independence of the poor. However, in the later Alton Locke he is more laudatory of the organized charitable work of Lady Ellerton. The two novels indicate the transition of female development from feudal queen to social worker. Kingsley is clearly more comfortable with women’s involvement in the structured feminine philanthropic movement. Females ; Philanthropy . |