John Galsworthy’s Compassion

Jill Felicity Durey is an honorary associate professor in the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University, in Perth, Western Australia, where she lectured in English and Writing for twenty-six years. Her publications include: Degrees of Intimacy: Cousin Marriage and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (2014), Trollope and the Church of England (Palgrave, 2002), and Realism and Narrative Modality: the Hero and Heroine in Eliot, Tolstoy and Flaubert (1993).

1. Family Origins and Influences.- 2. Prison Reform: Solitary Confinement.- 3. Animal Welfare.- 4. Disabled Soldiers During World War One.- 5. Alien Internment.- 6. Social Welfare: Working Conditions.- 7. Social Welfare: Living Conditions and Slum Clearance.- 8. Role of Literature and Galsworthy.