The Match Girl and the Heiress

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This publication paints a portrait of two late-nineteenth-century girlhoods of wealth and want, and their twentieth-century experiments in ethical living in a world torn apart by war, imperialism, and industrial capitalism. The author chronicles how each traveled the globe - Nellie Dowell (1876-1923) as a spinster proletarian laborer, Muriel Lester (1883-1968) as a well-heeled tourist and revered Christian peacemaker, anticolonial activist, and humanitarian