The rise of urban society meant that a great majority of people were living in towns at the end of the 19th century. In industrial centres the proportion of children was well above the national average, while in market towns it was below. This volume examines various aspects of the life of the Victorian child -- wealth and poverty, work and education, deprivation and crime, leisure and survival, stressing the changes which occurred over time in attitudes to town children and childhood, as well as the differences in the children's education and lifestyles according to their social class and where they lived.
- ISBN10 0750911190
- ISBN13 9780750911191
- Publish Date 26 June 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 May 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The History Press Ltd
- Imprint Sutton Publishing Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English