title: Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell
author:  Joan Waugh 
description: Waugh is excellent at placing Lowell in her time, class, and place, with her desire to be 'scientific' and to distinguish the deserving from the undeserving needy. The author points out that Lowell faced and learned how to use the constraints of her gender, and how to adapt to and use the political system when necessary. Lowell's achievement of these skills demonstrates how women without the vote could influence political matters through connections and mobilizing public support. Waugh has made very good use of the relevant primary and secondary materials.<br /> --V. P. Caruso (<i>Choice</i>)<br /><br />This study of one of the pivotal figures in late nineteenth century American social reform gives us a full and compelling account of how Lowell constructed new strategies to provide for the needs of the poor...In a variety of ways this fine book makes important contributions to our understanding of American social welfare history.<br /> --Kathryn Kish Sklar, Binghamton University<br /><br />Here is a heroic figure whose life commitments to serving the poor have all too much resonance for our own society...An important contribution to the history of reform, to American women's history, and to American biography. It fills an important gap in the literature on late nineteenth century reform.<br /> --Ellen Fitzpatrick, University of New Hampshire<br /><br />Joan Waugh's book is the first full, nuanced account of the life of Josephine Shaw Lowell, founder of the Charity Organization Party (1882)...Waugh's fine biography rightly highlights the career of an important figure in turn-of-the-century charity movements and reform.<br /> --Alison M. Parker (<i>American Historical Review</i>)
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  # **DEADLY DESIRE**
  
  
  
  
  
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  Brenda Joyce**_
  
    
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  ### Chapter One
  
  FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1902 — 10:00 A.M.  
  
  Francesca Cahill began to plot how to steal out of the house the moment she
  awoke. She was in the habit of arising at an unfashionable hour, or so her
  mother accused, but then, Julia Van Wyck Cahill was as fashionable as one of
  the city's reigning social matriarchs could be. Francesca never deceived
  herself—not only was she a bluestocking and a radical reformer through and
  through; she felt rather certain that, behind her back, she was also sometimes
  labeled an eccentric. No mind. She did not give a whit for fashion anyway, or
  parties or shopping or teas. She had secretly enrolled at Barnard College,
  hoping to attain her degree and follow in the footsteps of her idol, the
  journalist and reformer Jacob Riis. But in the past month, since January 18 to
  be exact, her plans had somehow, fatefully, changed.
  
  It had all begun with