... to relate to the other new class, the factory owners, and how were these industrial classes to engage the power of the landowning aristocracy? Elizabeth Gaskell, writing with the authority of a resident of Manchester, in Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1855); Dickens in Hard Times (1854), based on a strike in the north of England; Charlotte Bronte in Shirley (1849); Benjamin Disraeli in ... Coningsby (1844) and Sybil (1845); and Eliot in Felix Holt (1866) all sought to acclimate ... their readers to the new world of industrial capitalism and to present their varied imaginative v...

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... Chadwick (1803-1890): Report on Sanitary Conditions, 1842, [At Brown] • Friedrich Engels: Industrial Manchester, 1844 From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844. • Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South, 1855, [At Clinch Valley College] Edwin Chadwick - a commissioner to administer relief to paupers. His report in 1842 spurred government action. (He applied the principle of "the greatest good ... Class Culture o Lot of money spent on food o Use of servants o Well housed - apartments in Europe, houses in Britain o Values: Hard work, education, religion o Insecurity about so...

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