Little Mother Stories
New York: Volunteer Prison League, 1906.
Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #15478
Library REBIND, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Maud Ballington Booth was involved in the Salvation Army movement and married General Booth's son Ballington. The couple was sent to the United States to bring organization and fund-raising to the Salvation Army there. While successful, General Booth disapproved of a number of their changes and ordered them back to England. They refused, left the Salvation Army, and co-founded the Volunteers of America. Maud Ballington Booth became a leader in prison reform, the reform of the parole system and the establishment of the first private half-way house. Known as the "Little Mother of the Prisons". Little Mother Stories is a collection of six memoirs, each reflecting prison reform issues on a personal level: "All's Well", The "Given-up" Man, "Behind Prison Walls", "Bruising the Broken Reed", Against the Tide, and Prison-Shadowed Homes. Hard-to-find book by Maud Ballington Booth that educates and popularizes the prison reform movement. ; Ex-Library; 127 pages.
Price: $99.95