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- Title
Pride and Prejudice and Poor Laws.
- Authors
CRAIG, SHERYL
- Abstract
The author discusses that Jane Austen, author of the 1813 novel "Pride and Prejudice," was in favor of a national minimum wage proposal and an expansion of the old Elizabethan Poor Law benefits. Topics discussed include the response of British political party Tories to higher wages and expanded benefits, the 1979 survey "The State of the Poor," by Frederic Eden, and percentage of inhabitants in a parish that obtained some form of aid via the Poor Laws.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; AUSTEN, Jane, 1775-1817; PRIDE &; Prejudice (Book : Austen); MINIMUM wage; POOR people; TORY Party (Great Britain); EDEN, Frederick; HISTORY
- Publication
Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, 2013, Issue 35, p64
- ISSN
0821-0314
- Publication type
Article