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by
Routledge
Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials.
Volume 1 Voices of the Poor: Poor Law Depositions and Letters, Volume 2 Voices from the Street, Volume 3 Institutional Responses: The London Foundling Hospital, Volume 4 Institutional Responses: The Refuge for the Destitute, Volume 5 Philanthropy and Fiction, 1698–1818
Biography
Deborah A Symonds
