Victorian Middle Classes Research Articles

Outcast London: A Study in the Relationship between Classes in Victorian Society

In the second half of the nineteenth century, Victorian middle and upper classes felt increasingly threatened by the masses of outcast Gareth Stedman Jones, working from a mass of statistical and documentary evidence, argues that after 1850 London passed through a crisis of social and economic development. Outcast London is a fascinating and important study of the problem at the center of the crisis: the casual poor and their fraught relations with the labor market, with housing and with middle-class London.

Prosperity and Parenthood: A Study of Family Planning Among the Victorian Middle Classes.J. A. Banks

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsProsperity and Parenthood: A Study of Family Planning Among the Victorian Middle Classes. J. A. BanksJohn MogeyJohn Mogey Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 61, Number 2Sep., 1955 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/221709 Views: 2Total views on this site PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Prosperity and Parenthood. A Study of Family Planning among the Victorian Middle Classes.

Prosperity and Parenthood. A Study of Family Planning among the Victorian Middle Classes.

Prosperity and Parenthood: A Study of Family Planning among the Victorian Middle Classes

Prosperity and Parenthood: A Study of Family Planning among the Victorian Middle Classes

Prosperity and Parenthood. A Study of Family Planning among the Victorian Middle Classes.

In the last half of the 19th century, affluent English families began to practise family limitation, for which various explanations have been offered. This study examines economic factors as a reason, concluding that although they played a part, they cannot be the sole reason for the occurrence.