Pauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England

Pauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England

by Peter Jones and Steven King
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 09/09/2020

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This book represents the first attempt to identify and describe a workhouse reform ‘movement’ in mid- to late-nineteenth-century England, beyond the obvious candidates of the Workhouse Visiting Society and the voices of popular critics such as Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale. It is a subject on which the existing workhouse literature is largely silent, and this book therefore fills a considerable gap in our understanding of contemporary attitudes towards institutional welfare. Although many scholars have touched on the more obvious strands of workhouse criticism noted above, few have gone beyond these to explore the possibility that a concerted ‘movement’ existed that sought to place pressure on those with responsibility for workhouse administration, and to influence the trajectory of workhouse policy.

ISBN:
9783030478391
9783030478391
Category:
British & Irish history
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
09-09-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
Peter Jones

Peter Jones was educated at Cambridge University and taught Classics at Cambridge and at Newcastle University, before retiring in 1997.

He has written a regular column, 'Ancient & Modern', in the Spectator for many years and is the author of various books on the Classics, including the bestselling Learn Latin and Learn Ancient Greek, as well as Reading Virgil's Aeneid I and II, Vote for Caesar, Veni, Vidi, Vici, Eureka! and Quid Pro Quo.

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