Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians by Gertrude Himmelfarb

Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians

Gertrude Himmelfarb

475 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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In a provocative study that bristles with contemporary relevance, Himmelfarb demonstrates that the material and moral dimensions of poverty were inseparable in the minds of late Victorians, be they radical or conservative.

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