But it was the Charter of the Poor. The New Poor Law ...
But it was the Charter of the Poor.
The New Poor Law was the charter of
the ratepayer, and it was failing of its
purpose.The formula which had worked in the rural south failed when it was applied to the industrial midlands and the north. Reluctantly the Commissioners surrendered their principles and set the people to task work, or road-making, as if they had been Tudor magistrates faced with a short harvest.
And the poor rate rose again. The failure of the New Poor Law to fulfil its promise, the inevitable harshness of a new administration suddenly applied to a people with no idea of administration at all, the brutality that went on in some workhouses and the gorging in others,' the petty tyranny of officials and the petty corruption of Guardians, discredited the scientific Radicals and brought the sentimental Radicals to the front.
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The Pickwick Papers is not a Victorian document: it belongs to a ...
The Pickwick Papers is not a Victorian document: it belongs to a sunnier time, which perhaps had never existed.
The group of novels that follow, Oliv
But it was to be built by some magic of goodwill overriding ...
But it was to be built by some
magic of goodwill overriding the egoism of
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