The Social Novel: Fiction with a conscience

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

In this collection

• The Diamond Necklace
• Captain Joe and the Susie Ann
• Moral Polarity
• The Gully of Bluemansdyke
• What Children Read
• Disobedient Jimmy Crow
• Scotch Song
• To Mrs. will. H. Low
• A Popular Schoolgirl
• At Washington
• English Rose
• A Man Surprised at his Originality
• Of Captain Misson
• The Sabbath-Breaker
• The Pagan Seal-Wife
• The Stopped Watch
• Artfulness
• Boston Town
• My Name is Red
• Corny's Catamount
• The Winning of the Moon
• The Marooner
• Morlvera
• On Weighing Anchor
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