Victorian eBooks

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Preston 25 November 1862. Touching poem about the cotton famine by an author.

By . Touching descriptions of many individuals and families in Blackburn, Preston and Wigan written during the cotton famine. Also letters, speeches and songs of distress.

By . Describes in great detail the parsons, priests, congregations, buildings and beliefs of all the churches and chapels in Preston, Lancashire at the time.

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Hard Times

By Charles Dickens 1854. Highlights the social and economic pressures of English society. Based on a northern town.

North And South

By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1855. Industrialists and workers, love and hate, freedom and slavery based on Manchester.

The People Of The Abyss

By Jack London 1902. Life in the workhouse and on London streets contrast with fine clothes, wine and food of their millionaire oppressors.

Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick

By Emily Beavan 1845. Beautifully descriptive account of early settlers in Canada.

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