Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle Under the English Poor Law, 1760-1834

by Samantha Williams

Book Overview

Social welfare, increasingly extensive during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was by the first third of the nineteenth under considerable, and growing, pressure, during a period when levels of poverty soared. This book examines the poor and their families during these final decades of the old Poor Law. It takes as a case study the experience of poor families in two Bedfordshire communities, Campton and Shefford, and contrasts it with that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843838664
• ISBN13: 9781843838661
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"