1st Edition

Late Victorian Britain 1875-1901

By J.F.C. Harrison Copyright 1991
    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    266 Pages
    by Routledge

    Drawing heavily on the recollections and literature of the people themselves, Harrison places late Victorian Britain firmly in its social and political context.

    Part 1 The Victorian Achievement; Chapter 1 Progress and Poverty; Part 2 Social Structure; Chapter 2 The Elite; Chapter 3 Comfortable England; Chapter 4 Labouring Life; Part 3 Perceptions and Values; Chapter 5 Certainties; Chapter 6 Doubts and Anxieties; Part 4 Processes of Change; Chapter 7 England Arise!; Chapter 8 The Woman Question; Chapter 9 The Condition of the People; Part 5 Epilogue; Chapter 10 The End of Equipoise;

    Biography

    J.F.C. Harrison

    `... a well considered and well informed potrait of English society in the last quarter on the nineteenth century.' I