The English Rural Poor, 1850-1914 Vol 1, Freeman 9781138759589 Free Ship HB..

Taylor & Francis

Drawing on the difficult-to-access pamphlets, reports, periodical literature and political tracts, this five-volume set reproduces in facsimile a large number of neglected sources relating to rural life in the latter half of the nineteenth century > Drawing on the difficult-to-access pamphlets, reports, periodical literature and political tracts, this five-volume set reproduces in facsimile a large number of neglected sources relating to rural life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It is of interest to scholars in nineteenth-century studies and to all social historians. > Volume 1: The Moral and Material Condition of the Mid-Victorian Rural Poor John Eddowes, The Agricultural Labourer as He Really Is, or Village Morals in 1854 (1854); Rev. Henry Moule, Four Letters to His Royal Highness Prince Albert, as President of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall, on the Dwellings and Condition of Eleven Hundred of the Working Classes and Poor of Fordington (1854); John Stoke)