Poor Law Commission

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Harriet Martineau
Female Industry is a wide-ranging review covering the 1851 census results, the reports of Poor Law Commissioners on women and children in agriculture, the Governesses' Benevolent Institution , and The Lowell Offering, as well...
Textual Production Christian Isobel Johnstone
Using evidence gathered by the Poor Law Commission , CIJ published an indignant pamphlet: True Tales of the Irish Peasantry as Related by Themselves; Selected by Mrs. Johnstone from the Report of the Poor-law Commissioners.
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Textual Production Harriet Martineau
HM wrote the model number and several other volumes in a series conceived by the Poor Law Commissioners as guides for training children in workhouse schools.
politics Caroline Frances Cornwallis
In 1811 CFC became involved, through her father, in the National Society for the Education of the Poor . She wrote to her friends to drum up support and funds for the endeavour. While not...

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