Open Houses: Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Barbara Leckie

Open Houses: Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Haney Foundation

Barbara Leckie

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In the 1830s and '40s, a new preoccupation with the housing of the poor emerged in British print and visual culture. In response to cholera outbreaks, political unrest, and government initiatives, commentators evinced a keen desire to document hou...

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