Telescopic Philanthropy Rough Riders Battersea from across the Thames

Battersea from across the Thames

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Earl of Lincoln

showing pupils sitting in semicircle being taught

Telescopic Philanthropy Rough Riders Battersea from across the Thames'Telescopic Philanthropy', 1865. 'Little London Arab. Please 'M, Ain't We Black Enough to be Cared For? (With Mr. Punch's Compliments to Lord Stanley.)' In his novel, Bleak House, Dickens had highlighted and satirised the growing numbers of the middle classes who expended much time, effort and money on raising funds to 'civilise' (particularly black) foreign peoples, rather than concentrating on the problems of the poor at home. This 'telescopic