Tobin, Beth Fowkes
Superintending The Poor - Charitable Ladies And Paternal Landlords In British Fiction, 1770 - 1860
Yale University Press, 1993, 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/F. xii+195pp, index, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Hardback with dustjacket. ISBN: 0300055595
¶ A study of the literary works of Henry MacKenzie, William Godwin, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte & Charles Dickens in which the middle classes compete with the upper class & landed gentry to be seen as the leading benefactors of the poor and the class war for political and economic power.
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