Criticisms of the Poor Law in Material on the Victorian Web
- “The New Starvation Law Examined” (Broadside poem)
- Frances Trollope, Jessie Phillips: A Tale of the New Poor Law (1843)
- Thomas Carlyle, "Poor-law Prisons," Past and Present (1846)
- Charles Dickens, “A Walk in the Workhouse” (1850)
- Elizabeth Sewell satirizing advocates of the Poor Laws (1854)
- "'The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?' said Scrooge” (Dickens’s A Christmas Carol)
- Criticism of the Poor Law a main theme of Oliver Twist
- “Behold the effects of its infamous Poor-Laws” — G. W. M. Reynolds, England’s most popular novelist
- Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton and the poor laws
- Francis Power Cobbe and workhouse visitation
- George Eliot , "A Village Workhouse" (1857)
- John Ruskin’s “Work” on the Effects of the Poor Laws
- George R. Sims, "Christmas Day in the Workhouse" (1903)
Last modified 27 April 2019