The English Rural Poor, 1850-1914 Vol 3

Drawing on the difficult-to-access pamphlets, reports, periodical literature and political tracts, this five-volume set reproduces in facsimile a large number of neglected sources relating to rural life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It is of interest to scholars in nineteenth-century studies and to all social historians.

Mark Freeman

Volume 3: Life on the Land: the 1880s Henry Evershed, Cow-Keeping by Farm Labourers (1880 - reprinted from 1879); Thomas Hardy, The Dorset Farm Labourer Past and Present (1884); Rev. Augustus Jessopp, 'Clouds Over Arcady' (1883); Richard Jefferies, 'The Wiltshire Labourer' (1883); Richard Jefferies, 'After the County Franchise' (1884); An Agricultural Labourer, The Position of the Agricultural Labourer in the Past and in the Future (1885); P Anderson Graham, The Rural Exodus: The Problem of the Village and the Town (1892)