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The rich man and the diseased poor in early Victorian literature

Williams, A.Susan

Humanities Press

In the 1920s when the franchise was extended to put women in Britain on an equal electoral footing with men, it was still to be many years before women held positions of real power in their own right. But other channels of influence had always been open to some - those women of the social and political elite. Because of their class background, wealth and connections, such women were free of many of the restrictions placed on their sex. Indeed, they were more powerful in many ways than most men. Ladies of influence tells the stories of seven of these women and of their particular impact an Britain between the wars.All seven occupied the highest stratum of social and political life, through birth and marriage, and all of them sought to influence public life. Some relied on traditional channels, while others took up the challenge of the new political reality for women.

Ladies of Influence

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

viking uk

This book tells the story of efforts by London’s education services to prevent truancy and to help children to benefit from going to school. Set against 120 years of a unified education service for the metropolis, it tackles issues such as the impact on schooling of poverty and social class and raises important questions about future policy to help children in school.

The Children of London: Attendance and Welfare at School 1870-1990

Education & Teaching

Ivin, Patrick

Morse, Caroline

Schools & Teaching

UCL IOE Press

<p>First edition. This book uncovers the relationship between the fiction and the medical and socio-political discourse of early Victorian England. Uses the works of well-known authors such as Carlyle, Kingsley, and Dickens, as well as medical reports, sanitary tracts, and social commentary to discuss the wide disparity in the level of health between the rich and the poor. Illustrated. xi+ i , 152 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..</p>

The Rich Man and the Diseased Poor in Early Victorian Literature

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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