Victorians and the case for charity : essays on responses to English poverty by the state, the church and the literati / edited by Marilyn D. Button and Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen.

"This collection of all new essays seeks to answer a series of questions surrounding the Victorian response to poverty in Britain. In short, what did various layers of society say the poor deserved and what did they do to help them? The project is organized against the backdrop of the 1834 New...

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