# Poverty and Compassion

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- Book: [Poverty and Compassion](https://www.bookquiver.com/gertrude-himmelfarb/poverty-and-compassion) ([Poverty and Compassion.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gertrude-himmelfarb/poverty-and-compassion.md))
- Authors: [Gertrude Himmelfarb](https://www.bookquiver.com/gertrude-himmelfarb)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7974-173-2
- Pages: 492
- Published: 1992-10-27
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In a provocative study that bristles with contemporary relevance, Himmelfarb demonstrates that the material and moral dimensions of poverty were inseparable in the minds of late Victorians, be they radical...