TY - JOUR
AU - Harrison, Mary-Catherine
AB - 250 Reviews decisive blow with the loss of the emotive crutch of Ireland and the ‘strange death’ of Liberalism. Contemporary observers, such as The Times in November 1913, scoffed at Lloyd George’s utopian rhetoric that claimed land reform would fix a gamut of society’s ills (p. 260), and it begs the question as to whether the grandiose land campaigns of the nineteenth century met with similar public contempt. However, the land question has left a resonance. Without land concessions such as allotments, the current ‘grow your own’ vogue would be that much poorer. Similarly, the Edwardian urban land reform campaign has left the legacy of owner occupation rather than tenancy as the common form of land tenure in urban Britain (p. 177). Given the current woes of the housing market, especially in Ireland, one might wonder whether this remains a positive outcome of the land question. That such questions might arise demonstrates the power of this book to provoke thought. Drawing upon an impressive range of sources, this work would sit comfortably on the shelves of any scholar surveying British history of the last 200 years, but especially those interested in politics, the regions, and economics. Frederick S. Milton 
TI - Fiction, Feeling and Social Change
JO - Journal of Victorian Culture
DO - 10.1080/13555502.2012.685593
DA - 2012-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/fiction-feeling-and-social-change-0Oiea6IL43
SP - 250
EP - 255
VL - 17
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -