The Experience of Being Poor in England, 1700-1834: Interaction of Community Sentiment, Kinship and Demography

by Steven King

At the core of this book are the stories and life-cycles of the poor themselves. Drawing on sources (pauper letters, petitions, vestry minutes, newspaper reporting, and accounts) collected over the last twenty years, Steven King poses three key questions: How did the dependent poor experience and talk about such variables as housing, family, medical care, or the makeshift economy? How were such experiences related to situational matters such as ethnicity,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845194330
• ISBN13: 9781845194338
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
• Length: 320 Pages