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Middle Classes: Their Rise and Sprawl by Simon Gunn and Rachel Bell (Phoenix, 2003)
The Lower Middle Class in Britain ed. by Geoffrey Crossick (Croom Helm, 1977)
The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class. Ritual and Authority in the English Industrial City, 1840-1914 by Simon Gunn, (Manchester University Press, 2000)
Class edited by Patrick Joyce (Oxford University Press, 1995)
The Making of the British Middle Class? Studies of Regional and Cultural Diversity eds. Alan Kidd and David Nicholls, (Sutton, 1998)
Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism. Middle-Class Identity in Britain, 1800-1940 edited by Alan Kidd and David Nicholls (Manchester University Press, 1999)
The Self Made Man: Businessmen and their Autobiographies in Nineteenth Century Britain by Donna Loftus, (Business Archives, 80, 2000, pp.15-30)
Building European Society. Occupational Change and Social Mobility in Europe, 1840-1940 by Andrew Miles and David Vincent (Manchester University Press, 1993)
Self Help by Samuel Smiles, (1859)
About the author
Dr Loftus is a lecturer in history at the Open University. Her research interests are with nineteenth century British industrial and urban culture and in particular on the place of the market in social and political life. She is presently pursuing these themes in a book Markets and Morals: Capital and Community in Nineteenth Century England.
Published: 2001-08-01
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