INSTITUTIONS RUN FOR, BY OR FOUNDED BY WOMEN

HOMES IN BLOOMSBURY

1861 Industrial Home for Workhouse Girls, 23 New Ormond Street (now 22 Great Ormond Street), set up by Louis Twining with help from Lady Herbert and Angela Burdett-Coutt who paid the rent for three years. Girls were taught household and some nursing skills in the hope of their gaining domestic employment and staying out of workhouses. Provided a home they could return to between jobs.

1862-3 Home for the Aged and Incurable, established by Louisa Twining, for sick and elderly women with nowhere to go but workhouse, at 22 Great Ormond Street and, from 1863-1888, 24 New Ormond Street (now 20 and 24 Great Ormond Street) with the help of Frances Power Cobbe. Nursing care partly provided by girls trained at the Industrial Home.

1866 St. Luke’s Home for Epileptic and Incurable [Middle Class] Women established by Louisa Twining at 20 Queen Square.

(PDF) “Hear, Israel” The involvement of Jews in education of the deaf (1850–1880) (researchgate.net)

1864 Main Memorial Home for Deserted Mothers founded by Jane Dean Main, located at 49 Burton Crescent, to provide a home for ‘previously respectable women and their illegitimate children.’ (UCL Bloomsbury Project). The Home encouraged women to become self-supporting.

On the death of Main, Mrs Russell Gurney ran the Home with Caroline E Stehpen as Hon Secretary.

By mid-1894 it was part of the Church Penitentiary Association for the Reclamation of Fallen Women.

1863 Jews’ Deaf and Dumb Home founded with the financial assistance and support of Baroness Mayer de Rothschild as a school where resident Jewish children could learn to speak. It moved from Whitechapel to 41 Bruton Crescent WHEN? remaining there until 1875.  UCL Bloomsbury Project.

Pre 1875 Miss Stride’s Homes for Destitute Girls and Fallen Women founded by Sarah Elizabeth Stride, who became Lady Superintendent for the Home for destitute girls and fallen women at 12 Great Coram Street and 17 Hart Street.  See UCL Bloomsbury Project