ABSTRACT
First published in 1987. Many Victorian novels that considered social problems made extensive use of contemporary source material for their descriptions. This book aims to provide a greater acquaintance with this non-literary material — illustrating and exemplifying issues that the authors treated imaginatively. The material is divided into parts dealing with: the industrial north of England, London and the agricultural poor. Extracts from writings that bear directly on the fiction of writers like Dickens and Gaskell are featured, as are Government Blue Books and newspaper reports and articles. This volume also contains articles by Dickens and others, from his magazine, Household Words.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |14 pages
Introduction
part |114 pages
The Industrial North and Midlands
chapter |8 pages
1
chapter |7 pages
2
chapter |2 pages
3
chapter |9 pages
4
chapter |1 pages
5
chapter |6 pages
6
chapter |9 pages
7
chapter |15 pages
8
chapter |5 pages
9
chapter |2 pages
10
chapter |2 pages
11
chapter |9 pages
12
chapter |5 pages
13
chapter |1 pages
14
chapter |5 pages
15
chapter |3 pages
16
chapter |2 pages
17
chapter |5 pages
18
chapter |16 pages
19
part |108 pages
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