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Poverty in literature

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4 works

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    Cycles of disadvantage : a review of research / Michael Rutter, Nicola Madge.

    Rutter, Michael, 1953- | Date: [1976]
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    Fat king, lean beggar : representations of poverty in the age of Shakespeare / William C. Carroll.

    Carroll, William C., 1945- | Date: 1996
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    Consuming fictions : gender, class, and hunger in Dickens's novels / Gail Turley Houston.

    Houston, Gail Turley, 1950- | Date: [1994], ©1994
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    The other nation : the poor in English novels of the 1840s and 1850s / Sheila M. Smith.

    Smith, Sheila M. (Sheila Mary), 1930-2014. | Date: 1980

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