The Social Novel

Novels that exposed injustice and moved the public — Dickens on poverty, Sinclair on the stockyards, Gaskell on the mills.

Fiction with a conscience

In this collection

• Written Afterwards
• The Leveller
• Accidental Flight
• Snowball
• Domus Angusta
• The Place of Safety
• The Holy Cross
• Faute De Mieux
• A Gentleman
• In Madeira Place
• The Wolf and the Lion
• A Rescue
• The House Surgeon
• White Magic
• Jeanne of the Marshes
• An English Shire
• Mary Seaham, Volume II
• Lessons of the Street
• The Wedding Gown
• Heirs of Time
• The Golden Heart
• The Novel
• May Day
• The Golden Horseshoe
• Omega
• First Man
• Juneteenth
• Their only Way
• Let there be Light
• The Good Staff of Pleasure
• The Black Forge Mills
• Contending Forces

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