Product Description

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2024951 in Books
• Published on: 1991-06-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

From the Back Cover
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the British people began to examine the previously unquestioned links between progress and prosperity, having discovered that economic growth was not automatically benign. Orthodoxies were challenged and doubts raised: many believed they were living in an era of great flux. Their responses were to prompt manifold change.
In this highly readable book, Professor Harrison traces the relative features of the aristocracy, the middle class and the labouring classes during this formative period. He identifies the moral and religious beliefs which motivated late Victorians, examines their concerns about health education and the condition of the poor, and shows how, by the end of the period, more Britons were politically active - amongst them suffragettes, unionists and socialists - than ever before. He draws heavily on the recollections and literature of the people themselves to place late Victorian Britain firmly in its social and political context.

Customer Reviews

family history
Having become interested (actually obsessed!) by my family history I had started to look for books that helped me to understand the type of life my ancestors had led. On both sides of the family they were all labourers - farm, woollen industry, leather, brewing. Only in the 20th century did their lives start to improve.Access to education was the prime reason for the better jobs that they began to do.
I had already found the companion books Early and Middle Victorian Britain. These three books have added greatly to my knowledge. The Late Victorian book was particularly good.