30 Facts About Helen Bosanquet

Helen Bosanquet was an English social theorist, social reformer, and economist concerned with poverty, social policy, working-class life, and modern social work practices.

Helen Bosanquet focused much of her career on family, specifically working-class families, and their relationship with poverty.

Helen Bosanquet Dendy was born in Manchester in 1860 to Reverend John Dendy and his wife, Sarah Beard, one of nine children, the fifth child and the youngest daughter of John Relly Beard.

Helen Bosanquet was one of three children, Mary Dendy was her elder sister and her brother was biologist Arthur Dendy.

Helen Bosanquet became organizer and district secretary of the society's Shoreditch branch.

Helen Bosanquet was closely tied with the COS for the duration of her life.

Helen Bosanquet was active in the London Ethical Society, where she met the philosopher Bernard Bosanquet, whom she married on 13 December 1895.

Case workers, according to Helen Bosanquet, are to reach a "true" understanding of the perspective of those they are helping She abandoned her paid employment to focus on transcribing her ideas in writing.

Helen Bosanquet was appointed a member of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws in 1905, where she defended the role of private charities over public welfare programs.

Helen Bosanquet was a major influence on the Majority report, published in 1909, which arose out of the commission.

Helen Bosanquet worked alongside social reformer, Beatrice Webb, and the two were often in disagreement.

Webb wanted to abolish the Poor Laws and have state-run social services, while Helen Bosanquet wanted to keep some aspects of the Poor Laws.

Helen Bosanquet stressed the potential for development of case work and remained optimistic of its potential, as well as the potential of working-class families.

Helen Bosanquet emphasizes the important of understanding poverty in terms of an individual's capacity to deal with it.

Helen Bosanquet used the COS to relay that one way to do this is to work with the individual and their family to focus on rising above this economic circumstance and establish long-term solutions.

Helen Bosanquet strives to demolish the concept of the poverty line, using the importance of evidence, revision and criticism.

Helen Bosanquet argued that working-class individuals should be assisted to rise above their economic misfortune.

Helen Bosanquet emphasized the importance of different classes becoming accustomed with one another.

In 1902 Helen Bosanquet had a much publicized exchange of views with Seebohm Rowntree, in which she questioned his findings about the extent and the causes of poverty in York.

Helen Bosanquet takes an economic and philanthropic approach on the basis of what distribution produces the greatest happiness and serves the needs of individuals.

Helen Bosanquet played a key role in the development of social work in Britain.

Helen Bosanquet suggested that social workers needed formal education as well as professional skills.

Helen Bosanquet influenced the syllabus of the COS School of Sociology, which in 1912 became the Social Science Department of the London School of Economics.

Helen Bosanquet influenced what was taught that covered both practical skills and general education.

Helen Bosanquet spoke on the burdens that working-class women face because of disenfranchisement.

Helen Bosanquet's work was appreciated as "cultural sociology" because of her commentary on family and neighborhood poverty.

Helen Bosanquet wrote a memoir of her husband's life and it was published in 1924.

Helen Bosanquet died in Golders Green, London in 1925, having suffered from ill health for some years.

Helen Bosanquet critiqued Charles Booth's work on the Survey of Life and Labor, arguing that it threatened the basis of moral philanthropy.

Helen Bosanquet published a pamphlet, undated but published after 1900, after attacking both Booth and Rowntree's work.