Being true Pictures of Certain Social Conditions of England in the year 1897.
By Robert H. Sherard.
With about 40 Illustrations by Harold Piffard.
Dr Alfred Russel Wallace says:—"You have done a service to the cause of humanity in publishing it, and the author in writing it. That such things as Mr Sherard describes should exist at the very end of the century, when all our public writers are boasting of our wealth, our progress, and our civilisation, is a sufficient proof that our so-called civilisation is rotten to the core, worse in many respects than it has ever been before."
Mr Hall Caine says:—"The appalling revelations of Robert Sherard in his recent book are enough to make a man's heart bleed for the awful sufferings of women in the bitter struggle for bread. On the fate of our women, especially our working women, the future of our country, I truly believe, depends; and it is amazing that Parliament and the Press, and, above all, the Church, have hitherto given so little attention to so great a problem."
Dr Max Nordau says:—"I have now read your book 'The White Slaves of England.' I am not easily unnerved, but at times it was almost too much for me.... May it be your lot to become the Plimsoll of the alkali and lead-workers. This would be an achievement grand enough to satisfy the ambition of the greatest."
"An indictment which should rouse a cry of passionate indignation throughout the land. A careful and noble exposure of industrial iniquity."—The Echo.
NEW NOVEL BY SHAN F. BULLOCK.
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