Golden times : human documents of the Victorian age / E. Royston Pike.

Author: Pike, E. Royston (Edgar Royston), 1896-1980.

Imprint:New York : Praeger, [1967]

Description378 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Note:London ed. has title: Human documents of the Victorian golden age.

Note:Includes index.

Note:The golden age. The great exhibition ; What made the Victorians so proud? -- Life and labour -- Young England. Children's employment commission (1862) ; The long agony of the climbing boys ; Juvenile delinquents -- Queen Victoria's sisters. The industry of a million women ; London dressmakers ; Female labour in factory and workshop ; Women in the pit-banks and brickfields ; Women in agriculture -- Home sweet home -- The sanitary idea. London the insanitary city ; King cholera -- Workers unite! Trade unions ; Co-operation -- 'Sex' and the Victorians.

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