{"product_id":"the-match-girl-and-the-seth-koven-9780691158501","title":"The Match Girl and the Heiress","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow two extraordinary women crossed the Victorian class divide to put Christian teachings into practice in the slums of East London\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNellie Dowell was a match factory girl in Victorian London who spent her early years consigned to orphanages and hospitals. Muriel Lester, the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder, longed to be free of the burden of money and possessions. Together, these unlikely soulmates sought to remake the world according to their own utopian vision of Christ's teachings. \u003ci\u003eThe Match Girl and the Heiress\u003c\/i\u003e paints an unforgettable portrait of their late-nineteenth-century girlhoods of wealth and want, and their daring twentieth-century experiments in ethical living in a world torn apart by war, imperialism, and industrial capitalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this captivating book, Seth Koven chronicles how each traveled the globe--Nellie as a spinster proletarian laborer, Muriel as a well-heeled tourist and revered Christian peacemaker, anticolonial activist, and humanitarian. Koven vividly describes how their lives crossed in the slums of East London, where they inaugurated a grassroots revolution that took the Sermon on the Mount as a guide to achieving economic and social justice for the dispossessed. Koven shows how they devoted themselves to Kingsley Hall--Gandhi's London home in 1931 and Britain's first \"people's house\" founded on the Christian principles of social sharing, pacifism, and reconciliation--and sheds light on the intimacies and inequalities of their loving yet complicated relationship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Match Girl and the Heiress\u003c\/i\u003e probes the inner lives of these two extraordinary women against the panoramic backdrop of shop-floor labor politics, global capitalism, counterculture spirituality, and pacifist feminism to expose the wounds of poverty and neglect that Christian love could never heal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Seth Koven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691158509\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691158501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.50w x 1.41d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/17\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/25\/2015 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/17\/2015 pg. 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooks \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2016 pg. 26","brand":"Seth Koven","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43946950295807,"sku":"9780691158501","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_157915cd-6816-4d87-87f3-c0f429b4f91d.jpg?v=1681515870","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-match-girl-and-the-seth-koven-9780691158501","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}