ABSTRACT
When Hankey’s year in Bermondsey came to an end in the summer of 1912, Australia promised much that the East End could not. It was time, he decided, to pursue his study of the working man’s life by other means. Australia was his mother’s country, and might teach him something of what went into the making of Helen; proving himself worthy of his mother drove Hankey to broaden his sympathies and, running counter to a shy and fastidious disposition, to strive for that practical understanding of the poor which had seemed to come to her naturally.
