The Victorians and Social Protest

244pp. In grey cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Cloth very softly rounded at corners and spine tips. Hint of creaminess on first and last few leaves, top text block edge a little dust marked. In its original dust jacket, rubbed on corners, bumped and chapped along upper edge. A collection of essays from a variety of contributors on the theme of social protest during the Victorian era, including J Butt on Robert Owen and New Lanark; J H Treble on O'Connor, O'Connell and Attitudes of Irish Immigrants towards Chartism; Robert Gimour on Dickens and Self-help and James Redmond on William Morris, Bernard Shaw and Victorian Socialism, and more.