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Vagrancy in the Victorian Age
Language: en
Pages: 277
Authors: Alistair Robinson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-14 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Vagrants were everywhere in Victorian culture. They wandered through novels and newspapers, photographs, poems and periodicals, oil paintings and illustrations.
Vagrancy in the Victorian Age
Language: en
Pages: 277
Authors: Alistair Robinson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-14 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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An interdisciplinary study of the rich Victorian taxonomy of vagrancy, and the concepts of poverty, mobility and homelessness it expressed.
Cast Out
Language: en
Pages: 409
Authors: A. L. Beier
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-16 - Publisher: Ohio University Press

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Throughout history, those arrested for vagrancy have generally been poor men and women, often young, able-bodied, unemployed, and homeless. Most histories of va
Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Catharine Coleborne
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-04-04 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Investigating the history of vagrants in colonial Australia and New Zealand, this book provides insights into the histories and identities of marginalised peopl
Vagrancy in Law and Practice under the Old Poor Law
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Audrey Eccles
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-17 - Publisher: Routledge

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In eighteenth-century England, the law surrounding vagrancy was complicated, and practice stood in complex relationship to law. Drawing on extensive archival re