PUBLICATIONS |
||||||||
now re-available as a facsimile edition (Kessinger Publishing Legacy Reprint Series), there have been four biographies; Funding The Ladder;
The Passmore Edwards Legacy; J Passmore Edwards, Philanthropist; E H Burrage S W Partridge & Co, London, 1902 The Life & Good works of John Passmore Edwards; R S Best Dyllansow Truran, Redruth, 1981 John Passmore Edwards, 1823-1911,
An account of his life and works
|
||||||||
| PUBLICATIONS ON EDWARDS CONTEMPORIES AND CO-WORKERS | ||||||||
Silvanus Trevail, Cornish Architect and Entrepreneur Ronald Perry & Hazel Harradence Francis Boutle, London, 2008 Mrs Humphrey Ward, Eminent Victorian, Pre-eminent Edwardian; John Southerland Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990 |
||||||||
|
||||||||
| SEPARATELY PUBLISHED HISTORIES | ||||||||
Few of the individual Passmore Edwards buildings have separately published histories; Passmore Edwards Institutes, Founding & Opening CeremoniesJ J Macdonald Strand Newspaper Company, 1900 A Caring Community: A Centenary History of the National Society for Epilepsy and Chalfont Centre Jean Barclay NSE, 1992 Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria: Illustrations of Buildings Endowed by Passmore Edwards J Passmore Edwards Strand Newspaper Company, London, 1897 A Proud Heritage: The Story of the Railway Convalescent Homes John L Salmon Railway Convalescent Homes, London, 1954 100 Years in Newlyn: Diary of a Gallery Melissa Hardie Patten Press, Penzance, 1995. Echoes of a Century: The Centenary History of Southern Newspapers Ltd Gordon Sewell Southern Newspapers Ltd, Southampton, 1964 The Passmore Edwards Settlement Mrs Humphrey Ward Passmore Edwards Settlement, London, 1901 Mary Ward Settlement: A History 1891-1931 John Rogers, Passmore Edwards Research Series No 1 Mary Ward Settlement, London John Passmore Edwards & Mary Ward: A Special Relationship Peter Baynes The Mary Ward Centre, London, 1991 Camborne Public (Free) Library; 1895-1963 J F Odgers Camborne- Redruth UDC, Camborne, 1963 A Century of Caring – Furness School; 1883-1983; R Chapman, 1983 Acton Hospital 1897-1997 Acton History Group, 1997 The First Hundred Years of Acton Library A & T Harper Smith Acton History Group, 2000 The First Century George Tremlett The Workingmen’s Club and Institute Union Ltd, 1962 |
||||||||
| BACKGROUND Books giving the background to the society in which Passmore Edwards lived include: The Victorians A N Wilson Hutchinson, London, 2002 A Social History of England, 1851-1990 Victorian London |
||||||||