Superintending the poor : charitable ladies and paternal landlords in British fiction, 1770-1860

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Superintending the poor : charitable ladies and paternal landlords in British fiction, 1770-1860

Beth Fowkes Tobin

Yale University Press, c1993

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

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