Superintending the Poor: Charitable Ladies and Paternal Landlords in British Fiction, 1770-1860 by Ms. Beth Fowkes Tobin
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ISBN: 9780300055597
Yale University Press, 24 November 1993
Hardcover, 224 Pages
During the early industrialization of Britain, the middle classes and the landed upper classes clashed over the proper management of the countryside and the poor people who lived there. This book examines the strategy of the middle classes as displayed in the literature of the period.