Abstract
The household economy of the Victorian working class has been the subject of a great deal of rigorous research over the last thirty years, thanks to scholars including Anna Davin, Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries, Deborah Oxley, Ellen Ross and Julie-Marie Strange. Emma Griffin’s ‘intimate history of the Victorian economy’ offers a bold and accessible addition to this rich field. Her book provides an enthralling introduction to the insights that historians gain by using ‘the lens of the family’ to draw together economic and social history and to connect personal with political concerns (p. 6). Griffin’s book acts as a sequel to her influential monograph of 2013, Liberty’s Dawn: A People’s History of the Industrial Revolution. In that book she used more than 350 autobiographies written by men who had lived through industrialisation to present a story of ‘empowerment’ through ‘the advantages of economic growth’, but acknowledged that ‘patches of sunlight...
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