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Charles Dickens and Early Victorian England
1949 :: BOOK
Social history of England in Dickens's time with 14 colour charts credited to the Isotype Institute. Charts compare 1840s and 1870s figures on literacy, education grants and books published, London theatres in 1836 and 1870, population and its movement, emigration to Canada, the USA and Australia, public revenue and expenditure, shipping and shipbuilding, wool imports and woollen exports, wheat and cotton imports, railways, imports and exports, coal and iron exports, home and factory weaving, and per-head consumption of coffee, tea, sugar, wine, spirits and tobacco. Written by R. J. Cruikshank.
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