Child Labor in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Roger P. Wallins (essay date 1975)


Roger P. Wallins (essay date 1975)

SOURCE: Wallins, Roger P. “Victorian Periodicals and the Emerging Social Conscience.” Victorian Periodicals Newsletter 8, no. 2 (June 1975): 47-59.

[In the following essay, Wallins claims that social problems such as child labor, poor housing, and overcrowded, unsanitary graveyards brought to the attention of the middle class by nineteenth-century novelists had been exposed by popular periodicals much earlier.]

For much of the twentieth century, critics of Victorian ‘social-problem’ novels have tended to...

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