Poverty in Victorian England

The Other Half Victorian England has been dramatized into a blissful time of prosperity and great discovery, for the rich, but then there was the other half. Victorian England grew to fast said Patrick Rooke, it had no laws to cope with its increase in technology and so it fell back upon itself and the class gap widened. (39) Before the Victorian era there was an immense growth in factory production and disease. The later having …showed first 75 words of 2650 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2650 total…wrote the way he did because of his childhood. Now you know how the other half lived. Rooke, Patrick. The Age of Dickens. Toronto: Wayland, 1970 Clark, Kitson. The Making of Victorian England. Harvard University: Kitson Clark, 1962 Young, G.M. Portrait of an Age. London: Oxford University Press, 1936 Trevelyan, G.M. English Social History. London: David McKay Company, 1942 Petrie, Charles. The Victorians. West port, CT: Greenwood Press, 1895 Himmelfarg, Gertrude. Victorian Minds. Gloucester, MA: Alfred A Knopf, 1952