Charity bazaar

A charity bazaar, or "fancy fair", was an innovative and controversial fundraising sale in the Victorian era. Philanthropic organizations of all types, including hospitals, orphanages, schools, and religious congregations, frequently used charity bazaars to raise funds. Charity bazaars remained popular throughout the 1800s. Literary scholar Leslee Thorne-Murphy wrote that the charity bazaar was "perhaps the most quintessentially Victorian of all fundraising efforts."

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