Author: Charlotte Elizabeth [ Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth ]
Title: The Wrongs Of Woman Part II. The Foresaken Home
Description: W H Dalton, Cockspur Street, 1843, 1st edition. Original Cloth, VG. 140pp+4pp publishers adverts, spine faded & cocked, gathers a little loose, inscription from a Marion Cosway to her Sister Eliza Sophia dated 1844, an nice copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ The second part [ of 4 ] of Tonna's spirited attack on the Industrial Revolution which she despised as bringing both physical & mental ruination to the working classes The book contains many 'moving portrayals of physical and emotional suffering that are used to evoke audience sympathy' [DNB]. She wrote several works along a similar vein & although somewhat forgotten today was an important nineteenth-century figure, especially for other female writers upon social reform.

Keywords: literature, social reform, history, industrial revolution, feminism