Illustrations of political economy, Volume 3 (of 9)Martineau, Harriet
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Illustrations of political economy, Volume 3 (of 9)
Martineau, Harriet
Didactic fiction, English; Political fiction, English; Social problems -- Fiction
COUSIN MARSHALL.
1. A very Hot Morning 1
2. An Interior 15
3. Tea and Talk 32
4. Pauper Life 53
5. Cousin Marshall’s Charities 73
6. Parish Charities 82
7. What comes of Parish Charities? 90
8. What is Charity? 108
9. Cousin Marshall’s end 122
IRELAND.
1. Irish Economy 1
2. Irish Liabilities 15
3. Irish Adventure 34
4. Irish Crime 61
5. Irish Retribution 74
6. Irish Responsibility 91
7. Irish Impolicy 104
8. Irish Fatality 119
9. Irish Disaffection 127
A
MANCHESTER STRIKE.
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CHAPTER I.
THE WEEK’S END.
One fine Saturday evening in May, 18—, several hundred work-people, men,
girls, and boys, poured out from the gates of a factory which stood on
the banks of the Medlock, near Manchester. The children dispersed in
troops, some to play, but the greater number to reach home with all
speed, as if they were afraid of the sunshine that checquered the street
and reddened the gables and chimnies.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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