11164 Non-Fiction Stephen Shapiro

Stephen Shapiro

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11164 Non-Fiction Stephen ShapiroPearsall exposes, often in the words of the victims themselves, the cruelty of Victorian England. Beneath a glossy surface, he finds women treated as possessions and worse. He shows how the poor suffered in workhouses, the mentally ill in madhouses, the poor treatment at the hands of the church, pain inflicted in schools, workers in the "dark satanic mills," victims of the retributive justice system, and more. Most poignant is the plight of Victorian