This collection of all new essays seeks to answer a series of questions surrounding the Victorian response to poverty … in Britain. The project is organized against the backdrop of the 1834 New Poor Laws, recognizing that poverty garnered …"This collection of all new essays seeks to answer a series of questions surrounding the Victorian response to poverty …

, which was a part of the poor law package of legislation that attempted to solve the poverty problem. The Statute's primary …

include: relief of the poor was a local government responsibility; poverty was treated not as an economic problem, but as an …