TY - SER AU - Higgs, Mary, TI - Glimpses into the Abyss AV - HV PY - 2012/// PB - Project Gutenberg, KW - Lodging-houses -- Great Britain KW - Poor -- Great Britain KW - Vagrancy -- Great Britain KW - Prostitution -- Great Britain KW - Women -- Employment -- Great Britain N1 - Vagrancy: an essay awarded the Girton Gamble Prize, 1906 -- Five days and five nights as a tramp among tramps -- A northern tramp ward -- A night in a Salvation Army shelter -- Three nights in women's lodging-houses -- Common lodging-house life -- London investigations -- A symposium in a common lodging-house -- Vagrancy: its relation to the Industrial Revolution -- Appendices: Transfer of casuals to police supervision. Summary of recommendations of Vagrancy Committee. Labour colonies: summary. Women: report of Vagrancy Committee. Evils of short sentences. Preface by Canon Hicks, of Salford, to "Five days and nights as a tramp among tramps." Immorality as caused by destitution among women. Common lodging-houses versus shelters; Public domain in the USA; Text UR - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40122 ER -