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2. How Cruel was the Victorian Poor Law?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

David Roberts
David Roberts
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Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
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The Historical Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 1963 , pp. 97 - 107
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2 The Times, 20 February 1837.

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